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At a historic virtual ceremony on Monday afternoon, June 1, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University celebrated 76 graduates of the Class of 2020 who earned 84 certificates and four degrees through the Programs in Creative Writing, Dance, Theater, Music Theater, and Visual Arts. The ceremony, attended by more than 200 guests, was held via Zoom Webinar in response to restrictions on public gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting format has become all too familiar to the graduates who spent the final six weeks of their time at Princeton in online classes.

The event also awarded prizes to the top seniors and included a special live address to the graduates by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

“Today’s Class Day ceremony is a celebration of your commitment, throughout your time at Princeton, to asking the big questions in creative and arresting ways,” said Lewis Center Chair Tracy K. Smith in addressing the graduates. “If ever the world has needed bright, young, creative people helping us to look at the world and ourselves with more courage and compassion, it is now.” She added, “Artists are no strangers to change, challenge and upheaval. We dive into uncertainty with the desire to make headway, to find new kinds of sense, to startle ourselves out of anxiety and into new and sometimes unsettling forms of clarity. Each of you has risen to that occasion time and again during your time at Princeton. And this spring, in a time of global uncertainty,glaring injustice and grave loss, your commitment to paying attention, staying present, and being honest and vulnerable has helped to keep our community intact. Witnessing you bring your independent work to fruition in one of the strangest semesters in living memory has been a source of hope and continuity for more people than you may realize.”

In many regions of the world, irrigation is vital to food security and agricultural productivity. Prudent management of irrigation systems and water use becomes paramount under a probable scenario of rising climatic variability and population growth where increased irrigation is necessitated. Irrigation system managers are faced with the competing objectives such as water use minimization and crop yield maximization in selecting an irrigation strategy.

Of interest is Vico and Porporato’s work which defines three key factors in selecting an optimal irrigation strategy, namely sustainability, profitability and crop yield, and demonstrates that each factor comes at a cost to the others.

Watch the video where Alexander Zhu '21 presents his research on reducing T-cell receptor expression in T cells using RNAi and CRISPR-dCas9.

Adaptive immunity enables the human body to generate an immune response to specific pathogens. An important step in this process involves the scanning of the surfaces of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) by T cells. Such interactions are mediated by T-cell receptors (TCRs), which recognize and bind antigens presented on APCs. Various mechanisms have been proposed for how TCR binding leads to T-cell activation.

Understanding the mechanism requires TCR recruitment and triggering to be characterized at the level of individual proteins. In order for individual molecules to be visualized using TIRF microscopy, TCR expression must be reduced. RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) has been used to “knock down” TCR levels, but the effects of CRISPR-dCas9 on TCRs have never been studied before. The purpose of this study was to determine whether RNAi and CRISPR-dCas9, alone and in combination, could be used to reduce TCR expression. Oligonucleotides were generated and inserted into the pHR-sin-U6 plasmid. This plasmid was introduced into Jurkat T-cells using lentivirus transduction, and the TCR expression of 30,000 cells was measured using flow cytometry. We found that targeting the CD3ε chain through RNAi and CRISPR-dCas9 reduced TCR expression by 81.3% and 84.9% respectively. Combining these methods did not reduce TCR levels further, however.

These results suggest that RNAi and CRISPR-dCas9 can both effectively lower TCR expression, but these strategies do not act synergistically or additively when used together. Future studies should investigate the mechanism by which RNAi and CRISPR-dCas9 fail to act in conjunction and probe their effects on other CD3 chains.

While the method may have been different, the celebration was the same as the Princeton Athletics community gathered on May 28 for a virtual Gary Walters ’67 Princeton Varsity Club Awards Banquet. As part of the ceremony, major athletic awards were presented to students in the Class of 2020.

Co-hosted by Princeton seniors Chris Davis and Katie Reilly alongside Ford Family Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux Samaan, the awards banquet was an opportunity for the Tigers to rally together and commemorate the championships, successes, relationships and memories that will live on as the Class of 2020’s legacy.

Congratulations to:

Bella Alarie

The Otto von Kienbusch Award is awarded annually to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and the qualities of a true sportswoman. The award is presented in memory of C. Otto v. Kienbusch ’06, friend and benefactor of women’s athletics at Princeton.

Matthew Kolodzik and Michael Sowers

The William Winston Roper Trophy is awarded annually to a Princeton senior man of high scholastic rank and outstanding qualities of sportsmanship and general proficiency in athletics. It was established by Mrs. William W. Roper and the Class of 1902.

Grace Baylis and Chris Davis

The Art Lane ’34 Award is awarded to an undergraduate athlete in recognition of his or her selfless contribution to sport and society. The award is given in memory of Art Lane ’34 by friends and family.

Hadley Wilhoite

The Class of 1916 Cup is awarded each year to the Princeton varsity letter winner who continuing in competition in his or her senior year achieved at graduation the highest academic standing. The award was established by the Class of 1916 on the occasion of its 50th reunion.

Darja Filippova (graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature) and Natalie Romero Marx (Montclair University faculty, filmmaker and artist) present an 8-min fragment from their experimental film Natasha, Prospect Lefferts. The film follows Natasha (24, Aquarius, Ukraine, non-smoker), a pregnant Eastern European woman living in Prospect Lefferts, a low-income largely immigrant community in the heart of Brooklyn.

Embodying a male “client” gaze, the camera discovers Natasha among the mannequins in a local shop and follows her on a journey through Prospect Lefferts and into her bathtub. A peculiar object of desire, the “ready to burst” Natasha, in blazer and sexy underwear, engages the camera with a serpentine monologue on love, financial proclivity and her dreams, a monologue that is intercepted with interviews on the topic of dreams and love with members of the Prospect Lefferts community.

Through the use of jump-cuts and blur-effect, the film plays with affect and representation, being simultaneously open to condemnation, objectification and empathy. As the film ends, with Natasha sending a love letter in a plastic bottle into the recycling station, the directors attempt to shed light on the perverse juxtaposition of the American dream with the material reality of immigrant life in America.

Darja Filippova (Estonia) and Natalie Romero Marx (Colombia), both immigrants and first generation university students, met in a Pocha Nostra workshop in New Mexico in 2017. Pocha Nostra, the influential performance group, explores and parodies ethnic and gender stereotypes. This is their first collaborative project.

The Program in American Studies has honored Princeton seniors Vayne Ong with the Princeton Prize in Race Relations Senior Thesis Prize, Tabitha Belshee with the Willard Thorp Thesis Prize, Grace Koh with the Asher Hinds Prize, Allegra E. Martschenko with the Grace May Tilton Prize in Fine Arts, and Tessa Albertson with the David F. Bowers Prize.

In 2020, in lieu of a Class Day gathering, and to celebrate and honor the entire cohort of American, Asian American, and Latino studies certificate students, the Program in American Studies invited seniors to meet for a Zoom photo, and contribute to a video shared with graduating seniors and their families.

“Congratulations to the winners of these prestigious awards, and we celebrate their excellent work,” said Anne Cheng, professor of English and American studies, and director of the Program in American Studies. “And we are proud of all of our students and honor their achievements and perseverance.”

A public version of the video will be available on the program website soon after the originally scheduled June 1 Class Day.

Watch the video that Janie Kim '21 presented on connecting people and the microscopic with doodles.

Intricate stories line the quiet spaces in and around living cells. Capturing these microscopic stories and communicating them to people in creative, accessible ways grows ever more important. As a recent Environmental Microbiology editorial urged, efforts to increase “microbiology literacy” — understanding of the incredibly profound and positive impact of microbes on humans and the planet — are critical for fields spanning healthcare to sustainability to policymaking. Towards this aim, I present an eclectic collection of science artwork ranging from pencil illustrations of subcellular structures to miniature sculptures of our microscopic microbial residents, from graphical abstracts for publications to paintings made from living bacteria itself. My multimedia art aims to portray both science and the process and people behind it in an approachable way, and to forge both scientist-and-scientist and scientist-and-public connections.

Distilling complex microscopic stories into art can bring together creativity, personal touches, and humor in a way that is more difficult to do with scientific research. I believe that the intersection between science and multimedia art offers an exciting way of reaching people from all age groups and backgrounds. Multimedia art has great potential for generating appreciation, understanding, and wonder for the microscopic.

Watch the video that Loi T. Nguyen, a graduate student studying Chemistry, presented on a new quantum spin liquid candidate for storage applications.

At very low temperatures near absolute zero electrons become highly ordered. A quantum spin liquid is a novel phenomenon in which the electrons are entangled, but they remain fluctuating down to 0 degrees Kelvin.

A few quantum spin liquid materials have been reported and they have potential applications in data storage and memory. In this talk, I will present a new material, barium niobium iridium oxide, or Ba4NbIr3O12, which can host a quantum spin liquid state, probed by magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity measurements. A comparison will be made to other related materials in the family.

Students! You can search for summer job opportunities available through the 2020 Summer Student Employment Resource Page. Several of these open positions are research-oriented and offer the opportunity to work remotely with Princeton faculty and staff over the summer.

When you log-in to browse open positions, you can restrict your query to summer job postings by specifying “When? - Summer” in the search options.

Watch the video that Matthew Marquardt '21 presented on sleep deprivation at Princeton.

Princeton University students are known as some of the brightest and hardest working students in the country. They fill their schedules down to the minute and manage to fit in more activities than one would think is possible. At a certain point, something must give and sleep is often the first thing to be sacrificed. This leads to a perpetually sleep deprived community. It is no secret that Princeton students don’t get enough sleep. In 2018, students self-reported to only get an average of 6.8 hours per night.

However, the question is why we don’t get enough sleep. Is it really that we are too busy to sleep? Or is there something else going on? In order to answer this question, I conducted quantitative and qualitative research to help determine what factors lead to this culture of sleep deprivation with the goal of identifying barriers to getting higher quality and quantity sleep.

Matthew Marquardt is advised by Sheila Pontis, Entrepreneurship Program Specialist, Computer Science and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Lecturer in Computer Science and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.

Watch the video Angela De Santis '23 presented on The Role of ICT Diffusion in Reverse Immigration from Italy to Albania!

The purpose of this research project is to measure the degree to which the current trend of reverse immigration of Italians to Albania is attributable to Albania’s superior information and communication technologies (ICT) diffusion.

Italians are leaving their homeland, ranked as the eighth richest country in the world, and settling in Albania, a country ranked 120th which was besieged by a dictator for 41 years until 1985. Anecdotal evidence suggests that entrepreneurs number highly among the estimated 22,000 Italians who have immigrated to Albania, a ferry ride across the Adriatic. While articles in academic journals analyzing the historic immigration of Albanians to Italy are numerous, the reverse trend has been overlooked by scholars.

The 2019 World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report indicates that Albania surpassed Italy in the categories of meritocracy and incentivization. In the NBER paper “Diagnosing the Italian Disease,” Zingales and Pellegrino argue that Italy missed the IT revolution due to a lack of meritocracy. The Albanian-American Development Foundation has engaged me to ascertain the correlation between ICT diffusion in Albania and the reverse immigration of Italian entrepreneurs there.

I have created a survey to be conducted online. Under the mentorship of Professors Alan Blinder and Bruno Pellegrino, I will use STATA statistical software for data manipulation, visualisation, statistics and automated reporting.The potential impact of this research will be to incentivize the Italian government to improve ICT diffusion, and to provide to the Albanian government empirical evidence of the success of its outreach program to attract foreign investment through ICT optimization.

Angela De Santis is advised by Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, and Bruno Pellegrino, Ph.D. Candidate, Global Economics and Management at University of California Los Angeles.

As a researcher, Stahl stood out for her determination to spend hours in the field designing and fine-tuning experiments she came up with herself, Pringle said. “Especially for our students who might be oriented toward a career in science, you want to let them build their own idea and implement it,” Pringle said. “That is such an essence of science and it’s not something that comes naturally — it’s a skill that’s acquired.

“When I’m thinking about the value of a Princeton senior thesis, it’s partly about the final product but mostly about the learning process,” he continued. “Maria produced a beautiful piece of work and it reflects the learning process of a young scientist.”

For Stahl, one of the most valuable outcomes of her research was the opportunity to work in a wild habitat independently pursuing her own research. After graduation, Stahl will work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory with ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Ian Miller on his study — funded by a PEI Walbridge Fund Graduate Award — on the effect of climate change on the spread of plant pathogens.

Caching is crucial to the end-to-end performance of distributed systems. By storing content that is commonly requested so that it can be served faster, this technique can improve request latency and reduce load on backend servers. There are three objectives in caching: object miss ratio (OMR), byte miss ratio (BMR), and miss ratio (MR) for unit-sized object caching. Different objectives are typically important to different systems. Learning Relaxed Belady (LRB) is an existing machine learning (ML) caching algorithm that achieves substantially better byte miss ratios than existing state-of-the-art approaches. In this project, we adapt LRB for the two other objectives: object miss ratio and caching for unit-sized objects. OMR is a metric that is crucial to a wide range of caches, including CDN in-memory caches and key-value caches for large storage systems.

Decreasing OMR translates directly into improved application performance. We apply a novel sampling technique, byte sampling, to LRB that allows it outperform other state-of-the-art caching methods for OMR. LRB also performs better than other policies for unit-sized traces, demonstrating the broad applicability of this algorithm. We evaluate LRB on five production traces and demonstrate its robustness in performance on varying workloads. LRB, enhanced with byte sampling, is the only algorithm we know of that can consistently outperform other state-of-the-art policies for all three caching objectives. We unify these objectives with LRB and simplify the method through which further advancements can be made.

In this research video, Mike Wan, a graduate student studying chemical and biological engineering, presents on how an entirely different anti-bacterial approach may provide the solution to antibiotic resistance.

The emergence of pathogens for which all current treatments are ineffective has placed the antibiotic resistance crisis front and center for many communities. To address the trend of ever-increasing incidences of antibiotic resistance, anti-virulence strategies have been proposed as a promising solution. We aim to explore inhibition of bacterial nitric oxide (NO) defenses as a broad spectrum anti-virulence strategy, due to the importance of NO to innate immunity. To identify druggable genetic mediators of NO defense in bacteria, I used transposon insertion sequencing (Tn-seq) to screen Escherichia coli genome. Previously, it was found that low-NO-tolerance mutant (Δhmp) would cheat to obtain better fitness during NO treatment. While the extracellular NO donor fails to distinguish NO tolerance based on strain growth, we found that an intracellular NO donor generates a 5-fold difference in growth between wildtype and Δhmp during the assay. Using the intracellular NO donor in Tn-seq, we discovered several genes in branch-chain amino acid synthesis and Entner-Doudoroff shunt, are important for NO detoxification and recovery of Escherichia coli.

Extraordinarily gifted early career scientists and engineers are sought to join a New York–based interdisciplinary research group pursuing an ambitious, long-term project aimed in part at fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery.

AbbVie is a global, research-driven biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and critical conditions. 8-week at-work developmental experience to help you succeed in your biotech career.

Exciting, innovative research project with a team spurring innovation in technology and building things better and faster to benefit our communities. Help shape the future of the Internet and the way Americans will experience their work and day-to-day lives.

We focus on developing novel Centyrin targeted medicines for serious human diseases and are looking to build our team of scientists. In this role, contribute extensively with hands-on protein expression, purification and characterization to support drug discovery.

HCHS has a robust science research program and many students’ lab research plans fell through because of COVID-19. These students seek mentors to help them learn to code and to develop science projects involving publicly accessible data.

Our goal is to understand how digital signals generated by everyday use of smartphones may be associated with symptomatology and to improve the quality and accessibility of treatment for mental illness through education, research, and innovation in digital psychiatry.

PEI has two open summer positions, one with Princeton Fusion Systems (plasma research) and another with the Lewis and Nordenson Groups (urban systems/sustainability). Click the link above for descriptions of each opportunity. Applications are due May 22.

Grace Sommers ’20 was recently named the Latin salutatorian of the University’s Class of 2020. A resident of Bridgewater, N.J., Grace is concentrating in physics with certificates in applications of computing, applied and computational mathematics, and Ancient Roman language and culture. After graduation, Grace will return to the University to pursue a Ph.D. in physics.

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Sommers shared her reflections on her time at the University, her advice to current and incoming students, and her hopes for the future.

The spring course “Amazonia, The Last Frontier: History, Culture, and Power” transitioned to remote instruction after spring break due to the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier in the term, students had visited the Princeton University Library’s Special Collections to see several rare and unique items on the Amazon, and then, from off-site, they were able to access the materials digitally.

“Princeton has an incredible collection of rare books, maps and photographs on the Amazon, from colonial times to more recent American enterprises in the region,” said Miqueias Mugge, an associate research scholar and lecturer at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). “Our online transition went smoothly as the Library expeditiously made all the materials available in digital format,” Mugge said.

Having come to Princeton with a focus on pre-medicine, Morokhovich turned toward ecology and evolutionary biology after a PEI summer internship with professor Mary Caswell Stoddard studying the effects of climate change on the behavior of broad-tailed hummingbirds in the Rocky Mountains.

He’s found that broad-tailed hummingbirds provide an unexpected avenue to informing people about the imminent consequences of climate change.

“It’s been a great way to talk about climate change because people who may not have cared about it are interested when I mention my research,” Morokhovich said.

“Almost everyone I’ve talked to about birds has a hummingbird story and they want to hear about my work with them,” he said. “It’s interesting to me that these fascinating little birds are allowing me to talk to people about climate change.

“And maybe that makes those people a little more aware,” he said, “a bit more likely to do their part to help save the planet and these birds.”

The Council is now accepting applications for the Pope Prize. The Gregory T. Pope '80 Prize for Science Writing was established by the class of 1980 in remembrance of their classmate Gregory Pope, who was a science writer and editor. The award is granted to a senior who has shown a keen interest in science and demonstrated an outstanding ability to communicate that enthusiasm to a wide audience through journalism. All seniors are welcome to apply by sending 1-3 submissions via the online form. Applicants may submit original work in any format, but each submission may not exceed 3,000 words. Faculty are welcome to nominate students by sending an email to Joe Capizzi. A committee consisting of Council members and science writers select the winning essay. Deadline for the application is Friday, May 15, 2020.

Firm specializes in combustion research for the USAF Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB. Hiring for the Disruptive Propulsion Group focused on fast-paced projects as well as fundamental research on piston, gas turbine, and detonation engines.

Help prospective patients find the services they need by updating, optimizing, and writing webpages. Research how people use the web to learn about health topics and how health info is presented on the web. Interview doctors and admins and draft articles.

Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research ensures the safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness of biological products including vaccines, blood and blood products, and cells, tissues, and gene therapies for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases, conditions, or injury.

Appointment w/ the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water in the Water Security Division in Washington, DC. Objective of this project is to advance the nation's analytical ability to response to drinking water and waste water contamination incidents.

Full-time Research Assistant needed in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration. Seeking a motivated individual to work as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary research team conducting work evaluating patient-centered care.

Research is an intense activity that can be challenging to describe. Connecting with others on what a researcher does and why it is important is a goal of Princeton researchers — undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs — as they present their work to the public at the fifth annual Princeton Research Day.

This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton Research Day will be held as a series of three early evening webinars May 5-7 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. (Eastern). The presentations will showcase the diversity of research projects under the themes of “Reinterpretation,” “Environment” and “Wellbeing.”

Five research projects will be presented in each of the webinars. Each presentation includes a video. While more videos from researchers were submitted than could be shown during the evening webinars, all videos will be published later this month and promoted online.

Topics to be presented include:

• Power of the River: Introducing the Global Dam Tracker

• Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes among Central American and Mexican Children Held in Immigration Detention at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Reinterpretation: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. This theme is a reinvestigation or a new way of looking at a traditionally held belief or finding a new way of interpreting information. Hosted by Christine Murphy, assistant dean for academic affairs in the Graduate School, with welcome by Sarah-Jane Leslie, dean of the Graduate School.

Congratulations to Jessica Lambert and Claire Wayner, sophomores in PEI’s Certificate Program in Environmental Studies, who were named 2020 Udall Undergraduate Scholars by the Udall Foundation! A citizen of the Choctaw Nation, Lambert is an anthropology major and co-president of Natives at Princeton who wants to ultimately help establish tribal laws and agencies that protect and clean up contaminated Native American land. Wayner, a civil and environmental engineering major and president of the Princeton Student Climate Initiative, is driven by the climate crisis to work in or with the federal government to develop and implement policies that decarbonize the global energy supply.

The Udall Foundation is an independent federal agency founded in honor of U.S. Rep. Morris Udall and U.S. Rep. and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, whose careers had a significant impact on Native American self-governance, health care and stewardship of public lands and natural resources. Udall Scholars receive up to $7,000 and are selected based on their leadership, public service, academic excellence, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment.

Engage in projects regarding novel processes for conversion of coal to energy and useful chemicals. Conduct analysis of energy and material balances to obtain the optimum process and laboratory scale experiments to obtain parameters necessary for the optimization process.

Support efforts to assess the most relevant research in the field surrounding all aspects of digital media and child development and contribute to various research-related projects, among other tasks. Remote work. Stipend upon completion.

You may not be able to browse PUL's stacks right now, but that doesn't mean you can't access what's on the shelves. In response to COVID-19, HathiTrust has made over 5 million books from PUL's print collection available online for all Princeton students, faculty, and staff.

On Wednesday, Apr. 8 at 1 pm, library staff will provide a demonstration of search strategies and discussion of techniques to conduct research online. Register here: http://ow.ly/me5G50z6Caz

The situation around COVID-19 (coronavirus) has brought on widespread uncertainty for students, including their summer and career plans.

If your summer plans are disrupted or unclear for any reason, this information will help you to explore possible alternatives beyond traditional internships or study abroad programs and create your own summer experiences.

Over five million books from Princeton University Library’s print collection are now available to all Princeton students, faculty and staff online through the HathiTrust Digital Library’s new program, ETAS (Emergency Temporary Access Service). The ETAS includes in-copyright material.

The new service aims to aid HathiTrust’s U.S.-based member libraries that have suffered an unexpected or involuntary disruption to normal operations as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Sunrise Futures has built a perfect combination of an algorithmic trading engine, a scientific research laboratory, and a technology venture. We harness this combined power to produce algorithmic trading strategies in markets all around the globe.

NASA engineers are looking for a design that can successfully capture more than 50% of regolith (lunar soil). Contest (with prize money!) hosted by GrabCAD, the largest online community of professional designers, engineers, manufacturers, and students. Entries due Apr. 20.

Work with Princeton professors Derek Willis (WWS PhD 2010) and Leopoldo Villegas, developing a set of presentations for communicating the results of investment case analyses to several international development and global health organizations.

A research opportunity is currently available with the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies (OTAT), at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Join our Powertrain Engineering Division to serve as team’s main professional resource on gaseous FTIR instruments. Team of technicians are responsible for hands-on operation and maintenance of instruments, and you will serve as the primary scientific contact on the technology.

Join a cohort of fellows for the 2020 Dean for Medical Education's Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) program. Includes stipend and housing, and possible travel assistance. Deadline to apply is February 26, 2020.

The great fossil collection in Guyot was all but forgotten until Andrew Xu ’22 found out about the collection while preparing for a high school Science Olympiad fossils competition. Xu now maintains the collection with the help of the Geosciences department.

“The specimens were uncataloged, misplaced, or unidentified. I asked if I could curate them and preserve them for however long they are useful,” said Xu on the subject of maintenance. “My current project is to catalog this information and digitize it for future research,” he said.

Xu spent his summer before sophomore year working to catalog the collection. Initially, the collection had a master catalog, which has since been lost. Thus, many objects remain unclassified, and of limited scientific value.

Xu has worked to remake old labels and re-catalog some items, as well as organize them into more useful categories.

Reporting on high school football was among the last things my classmates and I had anticipated when we enrolled in an audio-journalism course last fall. But in October, during Princeton’s fall break, the 10 of us sat huddled on the cold metal bleachers of John F. Kennedy High School in Mound Bayou, Miss., waiting for the evening’s game to kick off.

We had expected the class to focus on the civil rights era. We quickly discovered that Mound Bayou was full of stories that stretched far beyond its history.

Princeton Research Day 2020 is an exciting opportunity for students and other researchers to showcase their work for a broad audience. The event includes the full breadth of work being done by undergraduates, graduate students and other non-faculty researchers, artists and performers in every corner of Princeton University.

Princeton Research Day will be held all day long on Thursday, May 7, at Frist Campus Center. The free, public program features talks, posters, video presentations, musical and theater performances, and art exhibitions. Cash prizes will be awarded.

Princeton University senior Sarah Hirschfield has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Cambridge to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

Hirschfield’s research will focus on the philosophy of law, ethics and feminist philosophy. Specifically, she plans to expand on her independent work at Princeton focused on negligent wrongdoing in rape cases; authority and pornography; questions of criminal intent, or mens rea; and law and punishment.

Seeking recent grad who wishes to spend at least 1 year doing full time research before pursuing a career or graduate studies in computation and neuroscience related fields (Computer Science, Bioengineering, Neurobiology, MD/PhD, etc.). Click for details.

10-week summer program for undergrads inspired by and committed to excellence in management and business research. Includes housing, partial board plan, modest research support, and coverage of summer savings obligations for fin’l aid recipients. Due 12pm 2/11.

Join a cohort of fellows for the 2020 Dean for Medical Education's Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) program. Includes stipend and housing, and possible travel assistance. Deadline to apply is February 26, 2020.

"If it's related to doing research on a computer, you can come to a help session to ask your question," says David Luet, senior software and programming analyst, who coordinates the sessions. "Even if we don't know the answer, we'll try to direct you to someone on-campus who will be able to help you."

The number of people attending the sessions grows every year, but they’re still "an underutilized resource," says Halverson. "You just show up and people will go to work for you. Once you get going, it's one-on-one, you get the person's undivided attention."

"The help sessions," says Kalhor, "were probably the best thing that happened for our research."

Harvard Business School's The Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) is a highly selective 10-week summer residential community of undergraduates participating in research affiliated with HBS faculty. The Program seeks to create a diverse group of Fellows including but not limited to women and underrepresented minorities who are inspired by and are committed to pursuing excellence in business research.

The program is open to students from any American undergraduate institution who may be considering doctoral studies. Summer 2020 will be the tenth year for this research experience program, which has been designed to stimulate community and creativity among a small group of motivated undergraduates. PRIMO will run from June 8 - August 15, 2020, and offers fellows Harvard campus housing, a partial board plan, modest research support, and coverage of summer savings obligations for financial aid recipients.

The deadline to submit applications is Tuesday, February 11th at 12:00 pm EST.

With support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and in collaboration with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), this is a unique opportunity to advance your early stage concept to a potentially commercialize-able opportunity with support from mentors at the UAF and at a participating DOE National Laboratory. Apply by January 27, 2020.

9-week summer program includes formal research training as well as workshops, seminars, mentoring and professional networking. Open to students who identify within an underrepresented ethnic minority group in the biomedical sciences. Apply by February 7, 2020.

10-week summer program for undergrads inspired by and committed to excellence in management and business research. Includes housing, partial board plan, modest research support, and coverage of summer savings obligations for fin’l aid recipients. Due 12pm 2/11.

Join a cohort of fellows for the 2020 Dean for Medical Education's Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) program. Includes stipend and housing, and possible travel assistance. Deadline to apply is February 26, 2020.

The Amgen Scholars Program provides summer research experiences at 13 institutions across the country for students interested in pursuing Ph.D.’s and, eventually, a career in science. Students interested in summer research in any area of biomedical science, chemistry, bioengineering or chemical engineering are encouraged to apply.

During the summer of 2020, UCLA will host 16 Amgen Scholars: 3 undergraduates from UCLA and 13 from other U.S. colleges and universities. Amgen Scholars will participate in research projects, attend scientific seminars, and work under some of the nation’s top academic scientists. The Amgen Scholars Program at UCLA also includes a $4000 stipend, housing and some meals provided, a three-day Biotechnology Conference in Los Angeles, GRE preparation course, luncheons with faculty, workshops, scientific writing instruction, seminars, and poster presentations.

Eligibility:

Amgen Scholars U.S. Program applicants must be:

U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents (international students are ineligible, but are welcome to consider the Asia Program)

Undergraduates enrolled in four-year colleges and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico and other U.S. Territories.

Sophomores (with 4 quarters or 3 semesters of college experience), juniors and non-graduating seniors (who are returning in the fall to continue their undergraduate experience).

Cumulative G.P.A. of 3.2 or above.

Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or joint M.D./Ph.D.

Application Deadline for Amgen Scholars Program at UCLA: Monday, February 3, 2020.

All Princeton undergraduates who have studied, worked, volunteered or conducted research abroad in the past year are eligible and may submit a total of four (4) photos.

Photo Categories

Abstraction

Architecture/Cityscape

Landscape/Nature

People

Special Categories

A Window on Eurasia

Every Picture Tells a Story (New for 2020!)

PIIRS Global Seminar

Tigers Abroad

Prizes

Best in Show ($100)

Best in Category ($50)

Honorable Mention(s)

The International Eye Photo Contest is sponsored by the Office of International Programs in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. A reception will be held in mid-March to celebrate the winners.

Students! Apply for Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. This will be a new annual two-day event at the main campus in Baltimore, Maryland and it will offer students across the country the chance to disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. The event will be this spring, April 3rd and 4th, 2020 and the application portal is now open.

This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. JHU will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), there will also be a wonderful keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring graduate students and faculty in JHU's humanities departments and centers. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend.

Columbia Business School seeks applicants for the 2020 Summer Research Internship Program. This highly selective program provides interns an opportunity to work with Columbia Business School's faculty on a research project in finance, economics, marketing, management, decision sciences, operations, accounting, or data analytics.

Under the guidance of a faculty mentor, most interns generally work on one research project. The work may include literature reviews, data collection and cleaning, web scraping, statistical analysis, and in some cases, contribution to a final publication. Behavioral interns may be staffed on multiple projects: conducting literature reviews, coding data, performing statistical analyses, and running experiments with the Behavioral Research lab. All interns will present their final results to faculty at the end of the project.

The program will run from June 1, 2020 through August 1, 2020 (final dates TBD). On-campus housing and a stipend will be provided.

Summer-Intern Placement

After graduating from their undergraduate or master’s programs, our summer interns have leveraged their experience at CBS to gain admission to some of the most prestigious PhD programs in Economics, Finance, Marketing, Management, Operations, and Data Science. Since 2012, 43 out of 125 interns have enrolled in PhD programs at schools like MIT (6), Harvard (6), Stanford (5), Columbia (4), Wharton (4), and the University of Chicago (2).

Some interns decide not to pursue their doctorate or defer doing so until after they have worked in industry for a few years. The summer internship experience provides training in analytical and quantitative skills that many employers find valuable. Our summer interns have accepted jobs from prestigious firms in management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte) and economic consulting (Cornerstone Research, Analysis Group), financial firms and hedge funds (Goldman Sachs, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Blackrock, Blackstone, Bridgewater, AQR Capital Management), and at technology companies such as Facebook, Nielsen, and eBay. A select number of summer interns return to CBS for our prestigious Predoctoral Fellows Program (PDF).

Successful Applicants

This is a multi-disciplinary program and candidates from all backgrounds, including business, statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, the physical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences, are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in applicants who are underrepresented minorities.

Prospective interns should demonstrate an enthusiasm for research and intellectual curiosity. They are expected to have excellent communication skills, basic knowledge of statistics and/or econometrics, and familiarity with statistical and computational software packages (e.g., Matlab, R, STATA, SPSS) and scripting languages such as Python or R. Candidates interested in working with behavioral researchers should have experience conducting experiments and coding data.

The Application Deadline is 11:59pm EST on March 1, 2020. We encourage you to apply early as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The application process is highly competitive, only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. For further information or questions, please email summerintern@gsb.columbia.edu.

We are excited to announce that applications for Stanford Research Conference (SRC) 2020 are open HERE.

SRC is Stanford Undergraduate Research Association’s annual research conference that serves as a forum for undergraduates from all over the country to present their work, connect with other researchers, and hear from distinguished leaders in the research community. The seventh annual SRC will be held April 10 to 12, 2020 at Stanford University.

Applications for our conference are due January 31, 2020. You can find the application HERE.

Traditionally, engineering students have learned about the thermodynamics of gas turbines by studying diagrams and solving equations, but this year they also donned hard hats, safety glasses and ear plugs to tour a plant that produces electricity for half a million homes.

Long seen as a rite of passage for sophomores majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, the thermodynamics course is known for its rigor. Making its content feel relevant for students can be a challenge. This year, the class became a Campus as Lab course, featuring field trips, guest lectures and lessons that enhanced students’ learning with examples of energy technology and policy from the University campus and surroundings.

In addition to visiting the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) generating station in Sewaren, New Jersey, about 30 miles from Princeton, students joined professional engineers to assess the energy efficiency of the Pink House, home to a community of undergraduates focused on sustainable living. Guest lecturers included an engineer who helps design gas turbines for extreme conditions and a contributor to the town of Princeton’s Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon emissions.

After Eric Garner’s murder in 2014, Priya Vulchi ’22 and her classmate Winona Guo, then sophomores at Princeton High School, were enraged. They decided to fight for required racial literacy curricula in all K-12 schools in the United States. They cold-emailed Eddie Glaude Jr. and Ruha Benjamin in Princeton’s Department of African American studies, who became their mentors. With two books under her belt, a Ted Talk (with more than 1.3 million views) and a gap year spent interviewing 500 people in all 50 states — Vulchi is continuing her work with Choose, the nonprofit she and Guo founded, as she focuses her academic work at Princeton as a major in African American studies.

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Are you considering applying to grad school and interested in oceanography as a career path? Contemplating a career in scientific research and development?

The Marine Physical Laboratory, at UC San Diego’s world renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is currently seeking inquisitive, motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science to apply for the 2020 MPL Summer Internship Program.

Undergraduate college students majoring in oceanography, applied mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and related majors are encouraged to apply. This ten-week internship will offer qualified students the opportunity to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world and learn about marine science and technology while earning a modest salary.

UCSD is an equal opportunity employer, with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.

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In an effort to further support open access to scholarship and research, Princeton University Library (PUL) has launched the Princeton Open Access Publication Fund, which will help underwrite fees for Princeton students, faculty, and staff to publish in Open Access (OA) publications.

Open access refers to the practice of making information, scholarship, and research freely available online, a movement in which PUL has been a leader, according to Scholarly Communications Librarian Yuan Li who leads the initiative for the fund and other open access resources at Princeton.

“PUL supports open access in a number of ways. It supports at the end point: We buy subscriptions, we buy journals, and we buy books. We provide access to the users. . . The Library will now provide support to the author [as well]. We are of the position that we provide as much help and support as we can to give access to the information, no matter if it’s from the user's end or from the production point. It’s all about access to the information and information sharing,” she said.

The Princeton Open Access Publication Fund aims to break down a financial barrier in place for Princeton authors, particularly those from underrepresented groups such as graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. In traditional publishing, payment happens at the end point; subscribers pay to access content. This created a financial barrier for readers. OA publications recently flipped the model and instead require authors to pay in order to publish. It similarly creates a financial barrier for authors.

Two Princeton seniors have been awarded Marshall Scholarships. Andrew Brown, a concentrator in physics, and Avital Fried, a concentrator in philosophy, will spend two years pursuing graduate study in the United Kingdom as part of the Marshall Scholar program, which offers intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders.

Brown and Fried are among 46 awardees for 2020. The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom and the United States by offering intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders. The scholarship covers the cost of two years of graduate study in the UK at a university of the recipient’s choice.

The editorial board of the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal invites Princeton students to submit a research paper for publication in their journal for undergraduate students: the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal (CUSJ). CUSJ is a highly selective peer-reviewed publication that aims to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to publish scholarly research papers.

This is a great opportunity for students to share the research work they have accomplished with a wider audience. The submission deadline for the 2019-2020 journal is February 2, 2020.

Princeton seniors Nathan Levit and Caleb Visser have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For its fifth class, 145 scholars were selected from around the world from more than 4,700 applicants. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. Courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua, as well as visiting scholars, beginning in August.

Research is a central focus of both students' undergraduate careers. While completing his studies at Princeton, Levit has conducted policy research at the local, state, national and international levels, working on site and remotely with Jed Herrmann, vice president for state and federal policy implementation at Results for America; U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn of Oklahoma; and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado. He also worked as a research assistant for New York Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Visser has interned for U.S. Africa Command. He was a research assistant at the Global Research Institute of the College of William and Mary, and also served as a legislative research intern for Veterans Campaign during the 2018 congressional midterm elections through Princeton Internships in Civic Service. He currently is a research fellow for the Wilson School’s Innovations for Successful Societies program.

In “Archaeology in the Field,” undergraduate students are introduced to archaeology through an immersive six-week course that exposes them to every aspect of an excavation. Students complete rotations in three groups, focusing on excavating, conducting lab work at a museum and surface surveying. Through these activities, they learn how archaeologists approach sites, formulate questions and gather evidence to answer them. The rotations also help students learn about preservation, which, according to Arrington, are just as important to archaeologists as the actual digging process.

Arrington has high hopes for what his students will take away from their experience in the field: “I hope that it changes their relationship to time and place, so that they always feel the past lurking beneath their feet wherever they are, and constantly think about how history has shaped who we are today.”

Join a cohort of fellows for the 2020 Dean for Medical Education's Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) program. Includes stipend and housing, and possible travel assistance. Deadline to apply is February 24, 2020.

With support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and in collaboration with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), you will have a unique opportunity to advance your early stage concept to a potentially commercialize-able opportunity with support from mentors at the UAF and at a participating DOE National Laboratory.

We are currently hiring graduating seniors for 1-2 year biomedical research assistant positions to work closely with senior scientists and participate in challenging, complex, and dynamic research projects. A smart first step before grad school

Princeton’s 2018 valedictorian Kyle Berlin and University Trustee Achille Tenkiang have been named George J. Mitchell Scholars. They are among 12 students who were selected for the annual award, named in honor of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell’s contributions to the Northern Ireland peace process.

Berlin will study culture and colonialism at National University of Ireland, Galway. Tenkiang will study race, migration and decolonial studies at University College Dublin.

Princeton University seniors Serena Alagappan and Ananya Agustin Malhotra are among 32 American recipients of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

Alagappan, of New York City, is concentrating in comparative literature and is also pursuing certificates in European cultural studies and creative writing. At Oxford, Alagappan will pursue an M.Sc. in social anthropology and an M.St. in World Literatures in English.

Malhotra, of Atlanta, is a concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and also is pursuing a certificate in European cultural studies. At Oxford, she will pursue the two-year M.Phil. in international relations.

In the framework of the Practical Research Experience Program (TUM PREP), Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites each summer excellent students from select North American universities to spend an at least 10-week long research stay at TUM. Participating students gain valuable insights into the research work at Germany’s top-ranked technical university and enhance their technical and methodological qualifications. Together with TUM scientists, TUM PREP students work in small research teams at different TUM chairs on a previously defined research project. Through individual support, buddies and a variety of TUM PREP events, the participants will be well integrated at TUM as well as in Munich and surroundings in a short time. The language of the TUM PREP program is English, and German language skills are not required for the participation.

Are you involved in research and looking for an opportunity to showcase your skills?

Do you want to learn more from professionals in your discipline?

Would you like the opportunity to meet students from across the United States in varying STEM fields?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you should apply to the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Conference at Virginia Tech. This conference is a unique opportunity for undergraduates to come together with professionals from varying scientific fields and share their passion for research. Our team created this conference because we believe in encouraging the collaboration of knowledge in order to facilitate advancement within areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Conference is a two day event, March 28-29th, which will include panel sessions, student oral and poster presentations, and catered meals. You can also look forward to hearing from three phenomenal keynote speakers. Dr. Anthony Leggett is a physics professor at the University of Illinois, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. Dr. Arnold Caplan is director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University and is known as a pioneer in mesenchymal stem cell research. Dr. Laura Nicklason is the founder of Humacyte, a globally known biotechnology company making incredible strides in regenerative medicine. She also serves as a Professor of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University.

The application to participate in the conference is due on December 31st and can be found through this link. For more information, please visit our facebook page “STEM Research Conference Commission” or email us at srccvirginiatech@gmail.com.

“You can learn a lot from carbonates,” said Emily Geyman, a 2019 Princeton graduate in geosciences and the lead author of a paper published Nov. 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper was the result of Geyman’s senior thesis research in which she investigated the chemical composition of carbonates and how these carbonates record the carbon cycle.

Geyman currently is pursuing a master’s with a focus on glaciology at the University of Tromsø in Arctic Norway as part of a Sachs Global Fellowship from Princeton.

She conducted her Bahamas work as part of her junior and senior independent work at Princeton. An accomplished young scientist, she has already been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades. She received the Peter W. Stroh ’51 Environmental Senior Thesis Prize, the Calvin Dodd MacCracken Award from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Edward Sampson 1914 Award for distinguished work in environmental geoscience.

Participate in analytical development activities in pharma and life sciences using state of the art mass spectrometry technology. In this exciting role, apply your enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of a small startup in the Philadelphia region.

10-week summer program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Work on research projects in computer science, computational science, and math in diverse domains including computer science, health data science, and climate science.

2-year training program involving clinical research experience. Daily activities relate to behavioral, psychophysiological, eye-tracking and neuroimaging studies of toddlers and children with and without autism. With research mentorship, selected applicants will be expected to guide a pre-determined project of research from the point of data collection through analysis and publication of results.

2-year training program in data science, cutting-edge computational technologies in a clinically based developmental disabilities research lab. Role involves rapid prototyping and robust development of translational technologies, which may include eye-tracking technologies, image processing, physiological sensing technologies, machine learning projects and experimental paradigms. With research mentorship, selected applicants will be expected to guide a pre-determined project of research from the point of data collection through analysis and publication of results.

Under the guidance of a mentor, potential training projects include contributing to the development of visual analytical dashboards in Python, Qlik Sense, or Tableau; and data analysis of complex, large relational datasets in Python or other analytical tools.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for undergraduate students majoring in disciplines related to oceanic and atmospheric science, research, or technology, and supportive of the purposes of NOAA’s programs and mission. Over 100 students are selected each year for participation in the Ernest F. Hollings and Educational Partnership Program (EPP) scholarship programs. These scholarships include support for two years of undergraduate study and summer internship opportunities at NOAA facilities across the country.

For information on program benefits and how to apply, visit our web sites:

· Full-time second year student at an accredited four-year undergraduate program or third year student at a five-year undergraduate program; community college or transfer students must provide proof of application to a four-year institution when applying for the scholarship and submit proof of acceptance prior to starting the program

Event Date: 10/23/19, 9am-10:30am. Faculty and graduate students will provide an overview of their PhD programs and discuss their research and life as graduate students at RPI. Learn about the application process – and have your application fee waived for attending the webinar!

Event Date 10/24/19, 12pm-3pm. Chat with recruiters, scientists, and researchers; Explore information about each lab/facility; Learn more about the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program at several participating Department of Energy labs/facilities.

Joining the research team which develops and implements statistical models for the valuation of mortgage assets. This role will be to develop, maintain, and enhance the various databases used within the Research group, and to also make the monthly data loading processes more efficient.

Leading global producer of specialty chemicals for water intensive industries. Intern will be given 1 or more industrial research projects supported by a Senior Investigator w/goal to meet project objectives, prepare a summary report and seminar within 10-12 weeks of an internship.

Shared by a current student! 10-week summer program designed for exceptional undergrads w/an aptitude in quant sciences and an interest in cancer and population health. Individual research program w/exposure to methods in biostatistics, epidemiology and health outcomes research.

The Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) invites undergraduate students at Princeton University to attend the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University on January 24-26, 2020.

NCRC is a large-scale, multidisciplinary forum held annually at Harvard University, where the most accomplished undergraduate students from across the United States and internationally convene each year to share their research in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The core vision behind this conference is to provide student researchers with the opportunity to hear from the world’s leading authorities in academia, policy, and industry, as well as to foster important exchanges and dialogue between students. Last year, after being selected through a competitive application process, over 200 participants from nearly 75 universities across America and abroad attended this conference. NCRC hopes to expand the perspective of undergraduate researchers through offering exposure to diverse fields and to facilitate the discourse on collaboration, leadership, and social impact in research that will be invaluable in future pursuits.

In the last five years, NCRC has been honored to host speakers including Marcia K. McNutt (President of the National Academy of Sciences and former Editor-in-Chief of Science), Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), Harold Varmus (former director of NIH and Nobel Prize Laureate), Gina McCarthy (former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency), Stephen Wolfram (founder and CEO of Wolfram Research), Vivek Murthy (Former Surgeon General) as well as many other notable individuals in academia, policy, and industry. NCRC anticipates expanding its reach to even greater heights for our upcoming 2020 conference.

Apply now!! The application deadline for general applications is December 1st, 2019 (11:59PM EST).

Students in the Global Seminar “Documentary Filmmaking in Kenya: Visual Storytelling on Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation” made five short films as part of the summer course based at the Mpala Research Centre. In the summer of 2019, a group of Princeton undergraduates embarked on a six-week Global Seminar in central Kenya, studying ecology and conservation as well as filmmaking fundamentals with Princeton faculty and other renowned instructors.

In teams, the students — many with no previous film experience — produced their documentaries while working in the field alongside faculty, Mpala scientists and researchers, and local residents. Each team included a Kenyan undergraduate, giving students from both countries the chance to work with and learn from collaborators from another culture.

Earlier this year, a new nonprofit dedicated to eradicating human and environmental abuses in company supply chains succeeded where investigative journalists have often failed.

Transparentem forced a number of major Western brands, including Target, Nike, and Fruit of the Loom, to act on fresh evidence of labor abuses in their Malaysian apparel factories.

The nonprofit did so by taking an effective new tack. Transparentem asked the companies privately first about what it had uncovered, instead of rushing to shame them in the press, The Guardian noted in June. The result was companies committing to real change at the factories, rather than quickly severing ties with them.

One of the people helping pioneer this strategy at Transparentem is the nonprofit’s operations chief Rachel Jackson ’11. And it was at Princeton that Jackson, an Amherst, Mass., native, first became interested in finding more effective ways to bring about change.

Apply by 10/14/19. Investigate the role of the MYCN oncogene in regulating inflammatory signaling and the immune response in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma using cell and molecular biology techniques including cell culture, qPCR, western blotting, and gene modification using CRISPR, among others.

Apply by 10/29/19. Princeton Professor Owen Zidar and U. Chicago Professor Eric Zwick seek 2 highly skilled and motivated individuals to work as full-time RAs for a period of two years, entailing close collaboration on new and ongoing empirical projects in applied microeconomics and public policy.

Princeton is leading a partnership with other New Jersey colleges designed to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to enter the academic “pipeline” and seek Ph.D.s, with a goal of ultimately increasing faculty diversity.

The Presidential Scholars Program (PSP) — a collaboration between Princeton, the three campuses of Rutgers University, and The College of New Jersey — will begin seeking applicants this fall who are first-generation and low-income students and students of color. Also targeted are female students in academic disciplines in which they have been historically underrepresented, such as classics, mathematics, and philosophy.

The program is expected to enroll 15 participants when it is launched next summer, with three students who have completed their first year of college from each of the partner locations.

PSP will support students with intensive mentoring, financial assistance, undergraduate research projects, and training opportunities in areas ranging from navigating college life to academic and teaching skills, according to Afia Ofori-Mensa, the program’s director.

As a first-generation college student, Barbara Garcia had to figure out a lot of things on her own when applying for college. Her parents were Mexican immigrants who didn’t go to college and couldn’t help her navigate the application process, couldn’t help her study for the SATs or look over her application essays.

“Being a first-generation college student has influenced me by teaching me independence and helping me to carve my own path,” Garcia said. “I didn’t have my parents to guide me toward STEM – I just sort of found it on my own and discovered physics on my own.”

Garcia forged ahead and found out everything she needed to know herself. That resourcefulness was useful to her as a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program participant at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where she spent 10 weeks doing hands-on research on an advanced liquid centrifuge with physicist Erik Gilson. She was one of 45 students who spent their summer doing hands-on research side-by-side with scientists and engineers at PPPL.

Princeton University celebrated the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes to seven students at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 8. This year’s George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize is shared by Mary DeVellis and Yechen Hu. The prize is awarded each year to members of the junior class in recognition of exceptional academic achievement during sophomore year.

Hu, of Shanghai, China, attended the High School Affiliated to Fudan University. She is concentrating in physics and plans to pursue certificates in biophysics and neuroscience. She spent the summer working in the Princeton Computational Memory Lab under the mentorship of Elizabeth McDevitt, a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Kenneth Norman, the Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience, professor of psychology and neuroscience, and chair of the Department of Psychology.

Hu’s project, which focuses on how the human brain resolves competition between memories via memory differentiation, was funded through the Office of Undergraduate Research Student Initiated Internship Program.

The Slavin Family Foundation awarded Princeton University undergraduates Rohan Shah, a molecular biology major in the class of 2020, and Matthew Marquardt, of the class of 2021, with Slavin Fellowships for their work in entrepreneurship on campus and beyond.

Shah, an Indian American student, and Marquardt are among 26 global recipients of the Slavin Fellowships.

“We are so pleased and honored to have two of our amazing undergraduate students accepted into the prestigious Slavin Fellowship program,” said Anne-Marie Maman, executive director of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council. “Princeton already provides students and alumni with mentors, connections and resources. The Slavin Fellowship program will be a great complement and another exceptional source of support.”

The Junior Summer Institute at Princeton — hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School since 1985 — prepares college students from diverse backgrounds for graduate study and careers in public service. This year’s participants represented 28 colleges and universities across the U.S., pursuing 23 majors. They are from 17 U.S. states and seven countries: Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, Nepal, Rwanda, Syria and Vietnam.

The roundtable was one element of the 2019 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI), held annually at Princeton and hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School since 1985. The goal of the seven-week program is to prepare students from historically underrepresented, diverse backgrounds for graduate study and careers in public policy. Through rigorous, high-level academic courses, participants experience how a Master in Public Affairs (MPA) can help them become future public service leaders. Selected through a competitive application process, students engage in a curriculum of writing, critical thinking, public speaking and quantitative reasoning skills — all of which are essential for the explanation, evaluation and development of public policy in domestic and international spheres.

The Science Coalition is excited to launch its Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge this fall. In preparation for the kickoff, the Student Engagement Committee has prepared materials for you to help amplify the challenge.

The Student Video Challenge page on the TSC website is now live, incorporating all the information interested students may need. Submissions will be accepted from September 3 – October 21, 2019. This event is open to graduate and undergraduate students at TSC institutions. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three graduate and undergraduate winners. There is also a people’s choice award for the finalists.

When you click on any YouTube video or buy a book on Amazon, machine learning algorithms behind the scene takes the information generated from your online activity and predicts what video or book you may be susceptible to viewing or buying the next time you log on the website.

Broadly speaking, this machine learning technology is called reinforcement learning, a type of machine learning system that is taking inputs from the environment, learning from those inputs and making decisions at the same time, according to Gene X. Li, a graduate of Princeton University’s class of 2019 and electrical engineering major. Basically, these algorithms iteratively use prior knowledge to make decisions, forming feedback loops. They then decide what is the best course of action given a specific situation.

“Self driving cars are one example of reinforcement learning,” said Li, 21 years old. “For example, cameras observe the road, and they must interpret whether the objects are obstacles that they should stop for, or decide when to turn to a different lane. All of this is happening in real time, so reinforcement learning algorithms must be able to process information about their surroundings and compute new decisions efficiently.”

Moraes graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and the Undergraduate Certificate in Statistics and Machine Learning (SML), awarded by the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML).

For her independent project for the SML certificate - which was also her senior thesis, Moraes looked at the impact of bilingual education programs on the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Basically, Moraes explained, she was trying to ascertain whether there was a difference in a student’s educational trajectory compared to their parents depending on whether or not the student took part in a bilingual education program.

Her research didn’t focus on any particular ethnicity, and the data set she used was taken from the 1997 edition of the federally-funded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The survey looked at men and women born between 1980 and 1984.

Four student researchers from Princeton University recently attended a summer internship program at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). The students’ application was made possible as part of an ongoing collaboration with Princeton University under their International Internship Program (IIP).

The students were immersed in a hands-on multidisciplinary research experience under the mentorship of distinguished researchers and scientists at QCRI. Their projects explored areas relating to QCRI’s specializations including data analytics, social computing, and smart cities, and their applications in Qatar.

The latest episode of the “She Roars” podcast features Wendy Kopp, Class of 1989, reflecting on her experience as a groundbreaking social entrepreneur — which she has been since long before the term was invented.

Wendy conceptualized Teach for America as part of her senior thesis and founded the organization shortly after graduation. It is based a single big idea: the most promising future leaders coming out of college could have profound social impact if they committed to teaching in underserved schools for just two years. Not only would school systems get an infusion of energy and talent, but Wendy thought her brainchild could embed public education as a top priority in the next generation of national decision makers. Flash forward 30 years and that idea has developed, deepened and grown into a global model for public educational reform. Wendy founded an international spinoff in 2007 called Teach for All that now operates in 50 countries.

Wendy is a regular visitor to campus. She most recently presented the keynote address to the Hire Tigers Career Summit on May 10, 2019.

The “She Roars” podcast was launched in October 2018 to celebrate women at Princeton, following the University’s successful alumni conference of the same name.

Growing up outside Detroit, Mich., Aaron Robertson ’17 never anticipated he would be involved in translating Italian literature. But the signs were there from the beginning. “When I was in middle school I loved the Italian Renaissance,” he recalls. In high school: “I did a project that was essentially doing a comparison between cultural representations of American imperialism and Italian imperialism.” Robertson now spends much of his time embarking on projects with a similar comparative lens. Specifically, he is focused on bringing the stories of Afro-Italians to the attention of global audiences. Robertson says his experiences in Princeton’s Italian and African American studies departments have largely shaped his career.

Robertson’s translation of Scego’s Beyond Babylonwas released last month, with a foreword written by Princeton creative writing professor Jhumpa Lahiri. Through the process, Robertson has developed a relationship with Scego herself.

“She’s been extremely gracious to me,” he says. He plans to work as her official translator for future releases in English.

“If you spend your time trying to do science at the interface between physics and biology, you realize that the way we traditionally teach both disciplines is limiting for our students,” said William Bialek, the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and the Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics (LSI), who is one of the co-directors of the CPBF. “Princeton is special: We have a critical mass of faculty who work at the border of physics and biology. And not only is Princeton an institution that has tremendous resources, it’s also an institution that believes those resources are there to build an environment in which people get the best possible education.”

Now in its second year, the CPBF summer school brings students to campus to delve deeply into the space between biology and physics.

At a conservatory, Berman would be immersed in music 24/7 — with classes on music theory, music history and ear training; private lessons and masterclasses with world-class instructors; and a multitude of performance opportunities — but the breadth of academic experience could be limited. At a college or university, he could focus on a liberal arts education that could lead to an infinite number of intellectual and experiential learning opportunities, but the caliber of music instruction might be limited.

Berman, a highly accomplished violinist with a deep interest in international relations, economics and China, found the perfect balance, he said, by choosing Princeton: “Princeton has given me a world-class education that I really value. … I really wanted to explore my academic interests that were outside of the typical conservatory curriculum. Princeton’s University Scholar Program and proximity to Juilliard allowed me access to violin performance opportunities, unmatched instruction and the international competition circuit while pursuing a top-rate liberal arts education. At Princeton, the broad experience and talent among my peers and mentors has expanded my thinking and shapes my musical interpretation, academic pursuits and worldview.”

With the support of the University Scholar Program — designed for students with exceptional talent in an academic or creative area that cannot be pursued within the regular curriculum — and Princeton’s proximity to New York, Berman was able to travel to New York City weekly for private lessons with his instructor at the Juilliard School. He also worked with his advisers and professors to manage the preparation and travel demands of the international competition circuit.

From the outset of their time at Princeton, students are encouraged and challenged to develop their scholarly interests and to evolve as independent thinkers. The culmination of this process is the senior thesis, which provides a unique opportunity for students to pursue original research and scholarship in a field of their choosing. At Princeton, every senior writes a thesis or, in the case of the arts, undertakes a creative independent project.

Integral to the senior thesis process is the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member who guides the development of the project. Thesis writers and advisers agree that the most valuable outcome of the senior thesis is the chance for students to enhance skills that are the foundation of future success, including creativity, intellectual engagement, mental discipline and the ability to meet new challenges.

For those students in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Programs in Creative Writing, Dance, Theater, Music Theater, or Visual Arts, there are several exciting ways to accomplish the thesis. In the videos linked below, meet four seniors from the Lewis Center and follow along as they pursue their creative passions — wrapped up in a senior thesis.

For Princeton undergraduates, the senior thesis is a chance to pursue original research or creative work on a topic of their own choosing. All students earning bachelor’s degrees complete independent projects. Faculty advisers serve as guides for students as they learn to apply their knowledge in new ways. Below are descriptions of projects by seniors in the engineering school’s six departments.

“The independent thinking was a great way to round out my time at Princeton,” said Kennedy, a civil and environmental engineering major who graduated June 5. She added that she found it rewarding “to lead a project on my own and think through the entire process of what questions I wanted to answer and how to answer them.”

Each year, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) supports senior-thesis researchby students from departments across the University. This story is part of a series exploring the disciplinary variety of PEI-funded undergraduate research carried out by members of the Class of 2019.

As a tropical nation spread across more than 7,600 islands, the Philippines seems like the ideal location to implement localized solar power for the 16 million Filipinos lacking reliable access to electricity. But as Princeton senior Erin Redding discovered, providing lasting energy solutions requires much more than a willing populace, low-cost technology and ample sunshine.

For her senior thesis research, Redding identified the main barriers to establishing renewable solar power in the Philippines — particularly in remote rural areas — and developed recommendations for the Philippine government to help ensure that those systems are successful. With support from the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Woodrow Wilson School, Redding spent three weeks in the Philippines in January interviewing 31 high-level officials in energy departments and bureaus, project managers for nonprofit solarization programs, and directors of solar social enterprises.

When planning his stay on the remote Pacific island of Nauru last year, Princeton senior Jack Lohmann had expected that a place often portrayed as a post-environmental dystopia would present challenges. Being besieged by feral dogs the moment he left the airport was not one he had anticipated.

“It’s a mixture of the very normal and the extremely sad and disturbing,” said Lohmann, who will receive his bachelor’s degree in English and certificates in environmental studies and journalism from Princeton on June 4. “When people talk about climate change and environmental destruction, they ask, ‘What happens next?’ I think Nauru is what happens next.”

For his senior thesis, Lohmann traveled to Nauru in June 2018 on a PEI Environmental Scholarship to spend a month as a PEI intern documenting life in an environment that has been exploited to the point of erasure. Nauru is located roughly 2,800 miles southwest of Hawaii in the Pacific region of Micronesia and is separated from the nearest country by 190 miles of ocean. The world’s third-smallest nation, Nauru is, however, one of the world’s largest phosphate-rock islands, which, beginning in 1907, made it among the richest sources of phosphorus for making agricultural fertilizer.

When the deposits largely ran out 90 years later, the island had been reduced to a narrow ring of sand and coastal plain surrounding a strip-mined moonscape of towering limestone spires and deep chasms. Today, roughly 80% of the island is uninhabitable and most endemic wildlife has vanished. The lack of arable land has resulted in a dependence on processed food imported mostly from Australia, contributing to the world’s highest obesity rate.

“When you read about this place online, outsiders who have visited describe it as weird or sad, or both,” Lohmann said. “I went with an open mind to see what it’s like to actually live in Nauru. I learned a lot, not just as a journalist, but as a person.”

As their thesis deadlines approached, seniors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science reflected on what they’ve gained by tackling a demanding yearlong research project, along with their coursework and other activities.

“The senior thesis or independent project is the culminating experience of a Princeton undergraduate education,” said Peter Bogucki, associate dean for undergraduate affairs in SEAS. “Students build on the knowledge gained from their coursework, choose a topic in consultation with an adviser, and perform experiments, design prototypes or simulate processes as they take ownership of a particular engineering problem. They then present their results in a professional way, having become an authority on the topic they have chosen.”

Said Elad Hazan, professor of computer science, “It’s a very gratifying experience for me as an educator to see students grow over the course of junior and senior years. They learn what it means to innovate in research, the challenges involved in making these innovations rigorous and provable, how to handle setbacks, how to collaborate, and how to communicate their results and relate them to relevant research in the field. I am amazed by the resilience and motivation some of them display, bringing out unique skills they have, whether mathematical, programming or writing, as impressive as any I have seen in my colleagues. They truly become researchers.”

As Princeton senior Daniel Petticord was conceptualizing his thesis on animal movement in the African savanna, he could have chosen to study elephants, zebras, giraffes, impalas or any of the iconic animals that inhabit central Kenya. He chose the ubiquitous leopard tortoise.

“I’ve always been a ‘dig around in the dirt and look for reptiles’ kind of person, so that was a good jumping-off point,” said Petticord, an ecology and evolutionary biology major receiving a certificate in environmental studies. “I really wanted to study snakes, but my adviser told me that the problem with snakes in Africa is that they’re all either really, really fast, or really, really venomous, which are two excellent reasons to not study snakes.”

Choosing the leopard tortoise, however, extended beyond Petticord’s fascination with the small and scaly. He wanted to explore how overlooked organisms like the leopard tortoise fit into global-scale dynamics such as climate change and ecosystem health. For his thesis, Petticord found that drier conditions on the African savanna brought about by climate change could promote the spread of a livestock disease and an invasive plant species, both of which are carried by the humble leopard tortoise.

“Nobody has any desire to look at a non-endangered tortoise species that can be found all over the world,” Petticord said. “My thesis can be seen as an argument that something seemingly innocuous can be impactful. Even the smallest of organisms are going to have ripple effects due to climate change that we should be considering.”

Say the word “research,” and the first images that come to mind might be a test tube, a microchip, or a laser and safety goggles.

But at the fourth annual Princeton Research Day, the sciences and engineering will share center stage with research on topics such as 17th-century Italian keyboard music, reflections on the musical “Legally Blonde” and a supernova illustrated by dance.

Princeton Research Day starts at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, in the Frist Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

“Princeton Research Day embraces the liberal arts philosophy of the University by bringing together ideas from different fields,” said Karla Ewalt, associate dean for research. “Creativity and inspiration develop when we move beyond our own perspective to see things through a new lens.”

There will be 10 arts presentations, the most thus far at Princeton Research Day, that will illustrate how the arts intersect with research. “By featuring the arts this year, we want to expand the view of research to explicitly include all types of creative and intellectual endeavors that help us appreciate humanity and understand our world,” said Ewalt.

The day will include more than 200 students and early-career researchers presenting from the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities. Some participants will give 10-minute talks with a digital presentation or performance. Others will give a 90-second pitch, and many will present posters or exhibits, which will be on display on the main floor of Frist.

Each year, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) supports senior-thesis research by students from departments across the University. Tess Jacobson kept within the realm of her physics major for her junior year research paper by examining dark matter-electron scattering. For her senior thesis, however, she turned to climate change.

“I wanted to get my hands on current issues, and climate change feels incredibly urgent to me,” said Jacobson, who will graduate on June 4.

As a PEI summer intern in 2017, Jacobson worked with Gabriel Vecchi, professor of geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, to understand how and why atmospheric warming projections differ between climate models. The year before, she took Vecchi’s course, “Introduction to Ocean Physics for Climate,” and found that it “fit very well with everything I’d been doing in physics and mathematics,” Jacobson said.

For her senior thesis, Jacobson worked with Vecchi as her adviser to investigate the influence of volcanic eruptions on the amount of rainfall that the Sahel — the semi-arid region of Africa south of the Sahara Desert — receives during the West African monsoon in summer and early autumn. Her research during summer 2018 was supported by a 2018 PEI Environmental Scholar award.

Sommers is planning to complete a Ph.D. in physics and then pursue a career in academia. Her mentors include Herman Verlinde, physics chair and the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics; Mariangela Lisanti, an assistant professor of physics; Branko Glišić, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering; Rebecca Napolitano, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering; and Oren Slone, an associate research scholar, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.

Clothing can create a first impression that starts to answer these questions. For her senior thesis toward a certificate in visual arts, Jessica Zhou designed and produced a fashion show that puts a witty twist on those questions as they relate to her many identities — as a woman, as a Texan, as Chinese American, as a busy Princeton student.

“The focus of Jessica’s thesis is how we, and she in particular, change and adapt to cultural codes. … She has examined that through how we as a culture do that through our clothing, through fashion, through our dress. She’s a psychology major. That is intrinsically woven into her work,” said Jeff Whetstone, professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts and Zhou’s adviser.

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12-month appointment, with the possibility of renewal for additional research periods. Duties include preparation of soils and waters for metals analyses using acid digestions; analyzing water samples for inorganic ions, metals, and nutrients; preparation of soils, waters, and tissues for a variety of organic compounds; and entry of data into the Laboratory Information Management System.

Our core effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources. Opportunity for students to apply advanced data modeling and statistical learning methods to market prediction and systematic trading.

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Among the largest behavioral and social science research orgs in the world. Position located in Technical Solutions Group. Work collaboratively with content and policy experts, taking a computational approach to answering important social science and behavioral research questions

In the Bhattacharya Lab we are interested in the immunology of inflammatory lung diseases, including acute lung injury, fibrosis, and asthma. By studying mouse lines expressing either inactivating mutations or transgenes, we can isolate the role of specific molecules involved in these diseases.

A range of internship offering through the Princeton Environmental Institute. Eligible Princeton first-year students, sophomores, and juniors are able to apply for up to three positions. Applications for open positions are being considered on a rolling basis.

Current research projects on Soldier injury mechanisms, human tolerance levels, injury-risk mitigation technologies, and health hazards present in the full spectrum of Army operational and training environments. Opportunities for a summer (10-12 weeks) or yearlong appointment.

Princeton University junior Nathan Poland has been awarded a 2019 Truman Scholarship, which provides up to $30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in professional development programs to prepare for careers in public service.

The award, which was given this year to 62 students among 840 candidates nationwide, “recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service,” according to the Truman Scholarship Foundation.

“By studying public interest law and infusing it with a sociological bent I intend to use the law, in theory and in practice, as a means to advance social justice,” Poland wrote in his application. After law school, he aspires to be a public defender.

Poland’s studies within his major have focused on race and public policy, particularly examining mass incarceration, institutionalized racism and the history of discrimination in law.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is the core funding agency of Japan, established in 1932. JSPS supports all scientific fields of research and international researchers exchanges. JSPS is a funding agency that aims to support the flow of scholars between the US and Japan and they have a number of fellowships.

JSPS will be holding a pre/postdoctoral fellowship information session on April 23, from 4:30-5:30 at Frist 302.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for the International Affairs, Department of the East Asian Studies, and NINS.

What does it mean to work as a designer or design researcher? Submit a question now. Then come on May 7th 2019 to PSH/PNI A32 to hear from the experts from companies such as 98point6, Adobe, Motorola, Google.org, and R/GA. Graduate and undergraduate students from the psychology department have organized a design conference in collaboration with other departments to discuss working in the design environment.

Support for this project has been provided in part by Princeton University's Psychology Department, Keller Center, Center for Digital Humanities, Lewis Center for the Arts, OIT : User Experience Office. The career center is offering networking workshop prior to this event, please email Dr. Susanne Killian, senior associate director, at susanne.killian@princeton.edu

Princeton University seniors Aaron X. Sobel and Aleksandar Vladicic have been awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as research assistants to scholars at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

They are among 11 students from around the country to be selected for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program, each specializing in a different topic or region. Sobel will join the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance project, while Vladicic will join the Russia and Eurasia project.

Things to Do in Princeton this Week: Senior Thesis Edition (Mar. 10–16)

With thesis deadlines looming in April, few seniors feel anywhere near to done with their work. But this week, a handful of Princeton seniors, working ahead of the curve, will bring their creative arts theses to fruition. Check out three stellar events below!

Holy: A Senior Thesis Show (Mar. 11–15) at Hurley Gallery. Created by S. Sanneh ’19 for a visual arts thesis, “Holy” is an exploration of black identity and subjects. Sanneh explores blackness without reducing it to stereotypes. Instead, Sanneh employs the lens of religion, as the exhibition’s title suggests.

The Midnight: A Senior Thesis Exhibition (Mar. 11–15) at Lucas Gallery. “The Midnight” is a visual arts thesis by Kate Northrop ’19. Northrop describes midnight as “a time, a place, and a state of mind.” In the show, Northrop uses the setting of a bedroom to delve deeper into the mysteries of the subconscious.

Choreopoem (Mar. 13–14) at the Wallace Theater. Choreopoem refers to a performance that combines poem, dance, music, and song. This original choreopoem was directed by Janelle Spence ’19, written by Feyisola Soetan ’19, and choreographed by Jessica Bailey ’19. The performance is comprised of seven vignettes that explore different elements of black femininity and “Black girl magic.”

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Position involves traditional non-profit office work as well as writing website articles and working with other staff to help hundreds of women who have serious health problems and are having trouble getting their health insurance companies to agree to cover medically necessary surgery.

A range of internship offering through the Princeton Environmental Institute. Eligible Princeton first-year students, sophomores, and juniors are able to apply for up to three positions. Applications for open positions are being considered on a rolling basis through the end of March.

The REU program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dozens of opportunities at sites throughout the United States. Most have deadlines in February-March. Typically, students are paid a stipend over 8-10 weeks in addition to housing. Variable application deadlines.

Posted 02/18/19. Work with a mentor for ~10 weeks on a guided research project within a PD Project Team. The program is organized to ensure that interns gain valuable industry and functional experience, work on challenging assignments, learn about BMS and meet company representatives.

Posted 02/18/19. Be assigned a summer-long project designed to improve airport operations performance at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). The interns will serve as an internal consultant and provide business analysis to management on challenges and opportunities facing the airline.

Posted 02/18/19. We are looking for bright, self-motivated, creative and persistent students who are interested in electrical/optics/fluidics engineering to join our organization in pioneering the use of live cells for the computation power required to solve real-world problems.

Posted 02/18/19. Boost Alaska’s contribution in technology and innovation advancements in manufacturing. Be paired with a mentor to work on a project. 10-week assignment includes stipend, housing allowance, and transportation support.

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Posted 02/18/19. Work with a mentor for ~10 weeks on a guided research project within a PD Project Team. The program is organized to ensure that interns gain valuable industry and functional experience, work on challenging assignments, learn about BMS and meet company representatives.

Posted 02/18/19. Be assigned a summer-long project designed to improve airport operations performance at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). The interns will serve as an internal consultant and provide business analysis to management on challenges and opportunities facing the airline.

Posted 02/18/19. We are looking for bright, self-motivated, creative and persistent students who are interested in electrical/optics/fluidics engineering to join our organization in pioneering the use of live cells for the computation power required to solve real-world problems.

Posted 02/18/19. Boost Alaska’s contribution in technology and innovation advancements in manufacturing. Be paired with a mentor to work on a project. 10-week assignment includes stipend, housing allowance, and transportation support.

Variable. The REU program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dozens of opportunities at sites throughout the United States. Most have deadlines in February-March. Typically, students are paid a stipend over 8-10 weeks in addition to housing.

Through lectures, conferences, performances and panel discussions, the public is invited to learn more about the movement of peoples over time and the consequences of those shifts.

“If migration has been a major human experience throughout history, it is taking on dramatic new dimensions in our own era of globalization,” said Sandra Bermann, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature at Princeton. “It is essential to understand it better. Our aim is to bring global, national and local migration issues to the forefront.”

Since early 2018, University departments and programs have collaborated with more than 30 Princeton-area nonprofit organizations on events that also have included exhibitions, film screenings, author talks and community action.

Princeton seniors Annabel Barry and Sydney Jordan have been named co-winners of the University’s 2019 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

They will be recognized at a luncheon during Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 23.

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership. Previous recipients include the late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. Goheen, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Princeton University seniors Mikaela Gerwin and Rachel Linfield have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Cambridge to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

The recipients are among 34 U.S. winners of the scholarship. A total of 90 scholarships are typically awarded each year, with international winners selected in the spring.

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Variable. Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dozens of opportunities at sites throughout the United States. Most have deadlines in February-March. Typically, students are paid a stipend over 8-10 weeks.

Apply by 02/01/19. Mellon Foundation-funded institute to collectively explore how this developing field contributes to the theorization, imagination, and practice of socially just and ecologically hopeful futures for humans and nonhumans in a global collective yet to be cooperatively defined.

Apply by 02/09/19. Intensive research training experience for college students preparing for Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. careers in biomedical research. 10-week program (early June thru mid-August) in which to pursue individual research projects in the labs of Graduate School faculty members.

Apply by 02/09/19. Current sophomores and juniors shadow physicians, engage in independent research, and learn about health equity. We encourage all students to apply, including those who identify as first-generation college students, students who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the health professions, and students who are committed to advancing opportunities for populations who lack equitable access to health care and/or committed to serving the underserved.

Apply by 02/01/19. Participate in 11 weeks of mentored, paid, independent research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, and pest and pathogens. Harvard Forest is in western Massachusetts.

Apply by 02/08/19. Includes nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training while expanding their learning experience through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and professional networking.

Apply by 02/11/19. Eight-week (~40/hrs week) competitive research-intensive experience in the Dept. of Pharmacology. Attend seminars, lab meetings, and more. Open to sophomores and juniors interested in pursuing a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in biomedical sciences or related field. We are committed to increasing the number of students from underrepresented minorities in Ph.D. programs and especially encouraged those students to apply.

Apply by 02/15/19. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of chemistry, physics, biology and engineering. Each REU participant will work directly with VINSE faculty members and their research group.

Apply by 03/01/19. Working for the Commonwealth is Working for the Common Good. DEP has internship openings across Pennsylvania, each with its own posting. Apply to ALL that interest you. Most positions require a valid driver’s license. Standard pay is $13.56/hour and a 37.5 hour workweek.

Apply by 03/10/19. 9 weeks research opp includes housing, stipend, meal and travel allowances. 10 students will be accepted from those enrolled in a Bachelor Degree program (biology, biomedical science, biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics, material science, engineering, and related fields).

Apply by 03/31/19. Help solve scientific challenges using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. Learn from ORNL mentors who have expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning and/or domain sciences such as physics, materials, or biology.

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (MU JCESOM) Graduate Program is offering the Summer Research Internship for Minority Students (SRIMS) for its 11th year!

The SRIMS program includes nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training while expanding their learning experience through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and professional networking.

A stipend of $3,000 will be provided to each participant for the nine-week experience. Participants will receive free room and board, as well as assistance with travel. Please be aware that students are required to provide their own health insurance coverage during the summer program.

The Singh Center at the University of Pennsylvania is currently accepting REU applications for summer 2019.

This 10-week program is designed to give undergraduate students the opportunity to work with scientists on the cutting-edge of nanoscale research. The Singh Center is centered around four major research facilities, all featuring state-of-the-art equipment for nanoscale characterization, measurement, and fabrication: the Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility, the Nanoscale Characterization Facility, the Scanning and Local Probe Facility, and the Material Property Measurement Facility.

Columbia Business School is seeking outstanding applications for the 2018 Summer Research Internship program. The highly selective program provides an intellectually stimulating environment and introduces the interns to the world of business research. Under the guidance of Columbia Business School’s leading faculty, interns will take an active role on a research project in one of the following areas: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, decision sciences, operations, and data analytics. This is a multi-disciplinary program and candidates from all backgrounds, including business, statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, the physical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences are encouraged to apply

The internship program is designed for undergraduate students at the end of their sophomore or junior year and first year Master Students. Exceptional students from other classes are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Several of the top interns have gone on to leading MS and PhD programs in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, and Data Sciences. Many been selected to join CBS full-time as a full-time Research Associates.

Saira Reyes had planned to study materials science before she interned in Jose Avalos’ bioengineering lab last summer. Her work there altering genes of organisms to produce biofuels struck a chord with her.

“It was as if I was looking at a giant biological puzzle,” said Reyes, a sophomore. “I realized I love bioengineering.”

Reyes was one of seven undergraduates sponsored by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in its eight-week summer internship program. The students worked in labs throughout the University and, for the first time, at two national environmental organizations.

Kim Sha interned at Environmental Defense Fund in Chicago where he analyzed how changes in electricity prices throughout the day could affect consumer behavior and the efficiency of the grid. Sha and colleagues sorted through data on residential energy consumption from 2.8 million homes.

Sha, a senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, said he valued the experience because “I could hit the ground running and dig into swaths of data to find useful patterns.”

Working with a fellow intern from Cornell University, Sha also contributed to a white paper on how utilities could price electricity according to the time of day and how that pricing could help consumers save money on their electric bills. He said the experience drawing conclusions from large datasets would help him with his senior thesis at Princeton, which will use data on solar irradiance to better test solar cells.

To read more about these undergraduate's and their experiences, click here.

Learn more about the undergraduate research experience from Reyes and Princeton’s undergraduate research correspondents here.

Applications for 2019 Andlinger Center summer internships are now open. Explore the opportunities here and apply before March 8, 2019.

Princeton University senior Ryan Chen, a mathematics major who is planning to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics with the goal of entering academia, has been selected as one of this year’s Churchill Scholars.

Chen is one of 16 scholarship winners who will spend a year studying at the University of Cambridge while living at Churchill College, the only college at Cambridge focused on STEM subjects. He plans to complete Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, which confers a Master of Advanced Study in mathematics.

“In light of the vastness and diversity of mathematics involved in modern number theory, I am eager to strengthen my foundations and knowledge as much as possible,” Chen said.

“My experience with math thus far has impressed upon me the diversity of tools involved,” he said. “Connections between different techniques and subfields offer beautiful theorems and conjectures.”

The Churchill Scholarships, first awarded in 1963, were set up at the request of Sir Winston Churchill as part of his vision for a scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom. The scholarships are granted to “exceptional” students from the United States who wish to pursue graduate studies in the sciences, mathematics or engineering.

Princeton University undergraduate students demonstrate a new level of commitment to environmental conservation as they serve in research, volunteer and internship positions around the world.

Determined to be guided by local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and mentors, these students dive into projects directed by grassroots groups, trusting that those on the ground know their needs best. As one student characterized it, they do the work that is needed when it is needed.

The University fosters such work, providing opportunities to serve across the globe each year. Students thrive in these culturally immersive projects as they resolve to contribute to Princeton’s unofficial motto: “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.” Below are the stories of several students whose experiences abroad shaped who they are today.

"The NJ Career Accelerator STEM Internship Program is a paid internship program administered through the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The program focuses on first-time interns enrolled in high schools, colleges, and universities with placement offers in STEM industries such as IT/Software, Life Sciences and Healthcare, and Energy. Participating employers will be reimbursed up to 50 percent of wages paid to new interns, up to $3,000 per student."

Eligible students include those enrolled in a STEM program at an approved New Jersey college.

Calling Princeton University students who have conducted scientific research - you are invited to submit a research paper for publication in the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal (CUSJ) CUSJ is a highly selective publication that aims to provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to publish scholarly research.

The CUSJ is a professional-level, open-access science journal that is committed to publishing manuscripts of the highest scholarship resulting from significant scientific research or outstanding scientific analysis. Each paper published in the CUSJ undergoes a double-blind peer review process facilitated by the Journal's Editorial Review Board and a faculty review by the CUSJ Faculty Advisory Board.

The deadline for submissions to the 2019 issue of the journal is Sunday, March 3, 2019. More information about the journal and submission guidelines can be found at: https://cusj.columbia.edu.

Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and let it go.

The copper disk swayed back and forth in front of the blackboard as Houck directed the students to time its swings. He later explained that the math describing the pendulum’s motion could be used to tackle practical problems such as using vibrations of atoms to detect pollutants or minimizing the shaking of skyscrapers in an earthquake.

Houck, a professor of electrical engineering, said faculty members wanted to provide students with more meaningful exposure to engineering in their first year. Beginning in 2014, he chaired a strategic planning committee that reviewed the engineering school’s undergraduate program, and later led a team of faculty who developed the new courses. The courses were piloted during the 2017-18 academic year with the aim of boosting student retention rates in engineering.

On Jan. 3, 1777, British and American forces fought a critical battle of the Revolutionary War on and around the Princeton University campus. This semester, 18 students in the course “Battle Lab: The Battle of Princeton” are using hands-on fieldwork to explore how the battle may have unfolded.

The course has included many visits to the Princeton Battlefield State Park, where students looked for artifacts using metal detectors, ground-penetrating radar and excavation. Arrington, who is also director of the Program in Archaeology, and DeLue, who is also a professor of art and archaeology and American studies, partnered with a few individuals with expertise related to the fieldwork. Graduate student Isabel Morris is a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering who uses ground-penetrating radar in her research, and local archaeologists and preservation specialists were on hand to provide insight into the age and usage of materials found on site, such as a musket ball, nails and broken pottery.

Rising sophomore, junior and senior undergraduate students from all U.S. colleges/universities are invited to apply for a 10-week NSF/REU summer research program in interdisciplinary water science and engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Fellowships begin May 28, 2019 (arrival day) and end August 2, 2019 (departure day). A stipend of $500/week ($5000 total), housing, meals, and travel expenses are provided. Ten students will be recruited for this program; two applicants will be selected for travel to India for research at The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). The application deadline is February 15th, 2019 (11:59 EST).

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 12/10/18. Lab assistant position appropriate for student/recent grad who wishes to spend 1-2 years doing full time research before pursuing a career or graduate studies in computation and neuroscience related fields (Computer Science, Bioengineering, Neurobiology, MD/PhD, etc.). Click link above to learn more about Dr. Blumenfeld’s work. Interested applicants should send a brief cover letter, CV or resume, and three letters of reference via email to: hal.blumenfeld@yale.edu. Note: due to high demand please do not send inquiries without attaching a CV/resume.

Posted 11/26/18. Step into some of the world’s premier research universities and institutions to conduct hands-on research in the lab alongside top faculty and participate in seminars/networking with peers and leading scientists. Opps in the Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the U.S.

Posted 12/03/18. Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dozens of opportunities at sites throughout the United States. Most have deadlines in February-March. Typically, students are paid a stipend over 8-10 weeks.

Apply by 12/17/18. Available for summer or longer terms, the DOE Scholars Program helps prepare and motivate participants toward the full range of entry and mid-level research, technical and professional positions within U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Apply by 12/17/18. Ten-week summer research opportunity w/the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Open to all, and populations underrepresented in STEM fields encouraged to apply. Train under the mentorship of program officials and scientists.

Apply by 02/09/19. Intensive summer research training experience for college students preparing for Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. careers in biomedical research. 10-week program (early June thru mid-August) in which to pursue individual research projects in the labs of Graduate School faculty members.

Apply by 02/09/19. Opportunity for current sophomores and juniors to shadow physicians, engage in independent research, and learn about health equity. We encourage all students to apply, including those who identify as first-generation college students, students who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the health professions, and students who are committed to advancing opportunities for populations who lack equitable access to health care and/or committed to serving the underserved.

Princeton seniors Tylor-Maria Johnson and Emily Geyman, and University of Oxford student Mary (Molly) Daunt have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.

Johnson was named a Sachs Scholar at Oxford’s Worcester College; Geyman, a Sachs Global Scholar; and Daunt, a Sachs Scholar at Princeton.

The Sachs Scholarship is intended to broaden the global experience of its recipients by providing them with the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation. It was established by classmates and friends of Daniel Sachs, a distinguished Princeton student athlete, who attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sachs died of cancer at age 28 in 1967. The award is given to those who best exemplify Sachs’ character, intelligence and commitment, and whose scholarship is most likely to benefit the public.

Michael Wisner, a senior concentrator in politics with a specialization in international relations from Polk, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2019 Rangel Fellow.

The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship is a U.S. State Department program administered by Howard University that seeks to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers as diplomats in the United States Foreign Service.

The latest cohort of 30 fellows will begin two-year graduate programs in fall 2019 and hold internships on Capitol Hill and overseas at U.S. embassies and consulates. Upon completion of the program, fellows join the State Department Foreign Service.

Wisner will receive up to $37,500 each year for his academic studies and living expenses and up to $10,000 each summer for internship-related support. He currently is in the process of applying to graduate programs in international relations.

Ararat Gocmen, a 2017 Princeton alumnus, and seniors Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman and Myrial Holbrook have been named 2019 Marshall Scholars.

The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom and the United States by offering intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders. The scholarship covers the cost of two years of graduate study in the U.K. at a university of the recipient’s choice. This year marks the largest class in the scholarship program’s 65-year history, with 48 undergraduate students from across the United States selected.

Princeton seniors Paul Greenbaum, Esham Macauley, Amanda Morrison and Rebekah Ninan have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For its fourth class, 147 scholars were selected from around the world from more than 2,800 applicants. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. Courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua, as well as visiting scholars, beginning in August. The program was founded by Blackstone investment firm co-founder Stephen Schwarzman.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 11/19/18. Exciting 10-week summer internship opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergrads w/exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary. Organization has a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.

Apply by 12/17/18. Available for summer or longer terms, the DOE Scholars Program helps prepare and motivate participants toward the full range of entry and mid-level research, technical and professional positions within U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Apply by 12/17/18. Ten-week summer research opportunity w/the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Open to all, and populations underrepresented in STEM fields encouraged to apply. Train under the mentorship of program officials and scientists.

Posted 11/26/18. Revolutionary consumer healthcare navigation company offering an intensive 12-week opportunity to rising seniors (c/o 2020) and grad students to work in an exciting, fast-paced and challenging environment on meaningful projects cross functionally with multiple departments.

Posted 11/26/18. Step into some of the world’s premier research universities and institutions to conduct hands-on research in the lab alongside top faculty and participate in seminars/networking with peers and leading scientists. Opps in the Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the U.S.

Apply by 02/09/19. Intensive summer research training experience for college students preparing for Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. careers in biomedical research. 10-week program (early June thru mid-August) in which to pursue individual research projects in the labs of Graduate School faculty members.

Apply by 02/09/19. Opportunity for current sophomores and juniors to shadow physicians, engage in independent research, and learn about health equity. We encourage all students to apply, including those who identify as first-generation college students, students who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the health professions, and students who are committed to advancing opportunities for populations who lack equitable access to health care and/or committed to serving the underserved.

This fall, six Princeton undergraduate students in the course “Arts of the Medieval Book” are exploring the technology and function of books through a historical perspective.

Working firsthand with Princeton’s collections of centuries-old illuminated manuscripts and facsimile editions of some of the most visually splendid manuscripts made between the sixth and 16th centuries, the students consider the choices artists made as they married text and image. At the end of the course, the class engages with contemporary artists’ books to explore how book forms have evolved.

The instructor: BeatriceKitzinger, assistant professor of art and archaeology, specializes in Western medieval art. She primarily studies manuscripts from the late eighth to early 10th centuries made in the Carolingian world.

The physicality of manuscripts figures deeply in her teaching. By designing the course around objects in Princeton’s collections and asking the students to try some hands-on design work themselves, Kitzinger said students can focus on the “architecture” of bookmaking. This offers a more tangible learning experience than viewing slides. Students have the option to create an original artist’s book for their final project.

Princeton University senior Annabel Barry has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study philosophy and literature at University College Dublin (UCD). Twelve Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to students nationwide by the nonprofit U.S.-Ireland Alliance based in Washington, D.C.

“I’m excited to have the opportunity to study at UCD, a school with a strong institutional commitment to social justice and public service,” Barry said. “The professors I will work with are not only incredible scholars, but are also active in LGBT and women’s rights advocacy in Ireland. I’m also looking forward to living in Dublin because of its literary history and vibrant contemporary theater scene.”

Princeton University seniors Nicolette D’Angelo, John Hoffmeyer and Katharine (Kate) Reed have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

They are among 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford. Last month, Princeton senior Samvida Sudheesh Venkateshwas awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for India. The students will begin their studies at Oxford in October 2019.

Applications for the 2019 Stanford Research Conference (SRC) are open! You can apply at tinyurl.com/2019src.

Held every spring, SURA’s annual conference serves as a forum where undergraduates from all over the country can present their work, connect with other researchers, and hear from distinguished leaders in the research community. Students who share their findings accordingly will receive valuable feedback from the students, alumni, and faculty members in attendance—feedback that will help them develop their interests further or redirect their efforts altogether. Students currently not participating in research may find a project that inspires them to explore an idea of their own. In this fashion, the conference will facilitate the exchange of information that is necessary for intellectual advancement in today’s highly interconnected society.

Technologies and discoveries with the potential to make a difference in everyday lives lined the tables and booths at Princeton University's 10th annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation reception. Over 300 guests attended the event Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Frick Chemistry Laboratory.

Among the technologies on display: A genetic test that can determine your dog's sociability level, a system for providing fast Wi-Fi downloads for people on the go, a low-cost water purification system, and a new screening platform for new drugs to treat hepatitis. (See the full list of faculty inventors and their technologies below.)

Each year, the campus hosts the reception to honor University inventors and their research teams, and to bring campus researchers together with the external community of entrepreneurs, investors, industry partners, business organizations and others who participate in the innovation ecosystem in New Jersey.

The Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) is inviting undergraduate students at Princeton University to attend the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University on January 24-26, 2019.

NCRC is a large-scale, multidisciplinary forum held annually at Harvard University, where the most accomplished undergraduate students from across the United States and internationally convene each year to share their research in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The core vision behind the conference is to provide student researchers with the opportunity to hear from the world’s leading authorities in academia, policy, and industry, as well as to foster important exchanges and dialogue between students. Last year, after being selected through a competitive application process, over 200 participants from nearly 75 universities across America and abroad attended the conference. Through NCRC, HCURA hopes to expand the perspective of undergraduate researchers through offering exposure to diverse fields and to facilitate the discourse on collaboration, leadership, and social impact in research that they believe will be invaluable in future pursuits.

In the last five years, NCRC has hosted speakers including Marcia K. McNutt (President of the National Academy of Sciences and former Editor-in-Chief of Science), Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), Harold Varmus (former director of NIH and Nobel Prize Laureate), Gina McCarthy (former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency), and Stephen Wolfram (founder and CEO of Wolfram Research), as well as many other notable individuals in academia, policy, and industry.

The application deadline for general applications is December 1st, 2018 (11:59PM EST). You can find the application and further information on http://ncrc.hcura.org/.

Princeton University senior Samvida Sudheesh Venkatesh has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. She is among five recipients from India chosen as 2019 Rhodes Scholars.

Venkatesh, of Bangalore, will receive funding for graduate study at Oxford. She plans to pursue an M.Sc. by Research in Biochemistry. At Princeton, she is concentrating in molecular biology and pursuing certificates in computer science and quantitative and computational biology.

The Rhodes Scholarships are among the most prestigious international fellowship awards. Students are chosen for outstanding scholarly achievements, as well as their commitment to others and potential for leadership in their chosen fields. Other 2019 Rhodes Scholars, including students from the United States, will be announced later.

On patch of dusty asphalt in Newark, New Jersey, sits a wooden shed topped with corrugated plastic, a safeguard from impending winter weather. But it won’t be there for long.

That’s because the shed is intended to roam around the civic project Down Bottom Farms, a half-acre plot bearing a fruit tree orchard, berry patches and even a small vineyard — part of Ironbound Community Corporation’s Urban Agriculture Program.

Built on wheels, the mobile storage system contains gardening tools and equipment easily accessible to the community gardeners who devotedly take care of the farm. The shed can also be split into two parts, providing even greater convenience.

The project was conceived by Princeton University students in conjunction with the spring course “Topics in the Formal Analysis of the Urban Structure — Environmental Challenges of Urban Sprawl” taught by Mario Gandelsonas, professor of architecture and the Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture. The project was funded by the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Princeton Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Practical Research Experience Program (PREP), a 10-week program that runs over the course of the summer. Participating in a research project under the supervision of a TUM faculty member, PREP participants will build up and further refine their research skills, learn more about the specifics of the German higher education and research landscape, and become members of the diverse scientific community at Germany's top-ranked technical university.

TUM PREP applicants demonstrate outstanding academic achievements, can easily adapt to new environments and are driven by a general curiosity for science and research. During their stay and beyond, program participants serve as ambassadors for their home institutions and for TUM, respectively, and will contribute to the strengthening of international research networks.

The application period is currently open, and closes on November 30th, 2018.

To read more about this exciting summer research opportunity, click here.

Princeton sophomore Allison Huang was a few weeks into her internship last summer and feeling a little pressure. Huang was responsible for selling tickets to a premier event for a nonprofit restaurant and culinary school for refugees, and the school’s staff was anxious about the turnout.

Huang refined her social media skills, crafting photos and messages, gauging what worked and what didn’t in grabbing customers’ attention. She and the organization’s founder, Kerry Brodie, watched as Huang’s posts prompted ticket sales.

The Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research Program is seeking undergraduate and recently graduated trainees for two separate internship opportunities in bioethics research starting the summer of 2019: (1) The Summer Undergraduate Student Program in Biomedical Ethics Research (SUPER) and (2) The Post-Baccalaureate Program in Biomedical Ethics Research (GREP).

Niko Fotopoulos, a Princeton sophomore, is a co-founder of Blackwell, a medical technology startup. The Blackwell team spent this past summer at Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs, the first undergraduate team to do so.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Princeton alumna Frances Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes.” She received half of the award, while the other half was divided between George Smith of the University of Missouri-Columbia and Sir Gregory Winter of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.”

Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

“Frances Arnold is a groundbreaking chemist whose research has had far-reaching impact on the development of chemical substances, from pharmaceuticals to biofuels. I am thrilled that she has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,” said Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Professor Arnold’s scientific excellence and intellectual leadership exemplify values essential to our University, and all of us at Princeton are celebrating her receipt of this well-deserved honor.”

One is off to law school. Another has joined the staff of Princeton’s Office of Religious Life. Another will be teaching art to secondary school students in New York City. These students and seven of their peers started at Princeton thinking they were going to major in one thing — math or molecular biology, for example — and all changed to African American studies.

They comprise the Department of African American Studies’ (AAS) first cohort of concentrators who graduated in June. The Center for African American Studies was formed in 2006. In fall 2015, the University gave the center academic department status, ushering in a new era in which students could major in African American studies; previously, students could only earn a certificate.

“I remain in awe of Princeton’s first class of concentrators in African American studies,” said Eddie Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and department chair. “Each student brought something unique to our department. They worked closely with our stellar faculty, who pushed them to think critically and to imagine themselves in the most expansive of terms. All of them were courageous enough to pursue their passion irrespective of assumptions about traditional majors.

Every spring, an April day rolls around when a sizable number of Princeton seniors heave a collective sigh of relief. They have just submitted the final draft of their thesis, and some ceremoniously mark the occasion by turning a tank top inside out: What used to read “THESIS LIFE” on their chest now roars “PTL” — post-thesis life.

For months, these seniors will have poured their souls into a research project that marks the capstone of their Princeton academic experience. Some refer to the arduous process as “birthing a book.” Forming a question, writing the words, consulting endlessly with their advisor ­— these are steps in a rite of passage that almost all Princetonians will recognize.

For many, and especially for those who don’t go into academia, the thesis will likely end up sitting in an obscure corner of a bookshelf, out of sight and out of mind. But from time to time, the thesis makes a surprising reappearance in the post-Princeton life, re-emerging in unexpected ways.

In the framework of the Practical Research Experience Program (PREP), Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites excellent North American students each summer to spend an at least 10-week long research stay at TUM. Participating students gain valuable insights into the research work at Germany’s top-ranked technical university and enhance their technical and methodological qualifications.

Together with TUM scientists, the PREP students work in small research teams at different TUM chairs on a previously defined research project. Through individual support, buddies and a variety of PREP events, the participants will be well integrated at TUM and in Munich in a short time. The language of the PREP program is English, and German language skills are not required for the participation.

When oceanographer Bess Ward was granted research time aboard the R/V Sally Ride during the middle of the spring semester, she had to figure out how to teach GEO 428, “Biological Oceanography,” from the Pacific Ocean.

She created a teaching schedule that used student presentations, a series of guest lecturers, and her first teaching assistant for this course, who showed the students videos that Ward created and uploaded from the ship as it sampled the waters off the coast of Mexico. The goal of the work in the Pacific Ocean was to find and analyze the microbes that play a key role in climate change and ozone depletion.

The Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award up to $1,000,000 totalling $333,333 a year over the next three years for multiple faculty and student research projects and/or programs involving quantitative data analysis to support findings with broad relevance and application. Priority will be given to proposals that are cross-disciplinary.

For the 2018-19 academic year, two levels of grant support are available: Grants of $5,000 or less, and grants between $5,000 and $200,000. Larger grants could be disbursed over two years.

Princeton University celebrated the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes to six students at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 9.

“We are delighted to honor this year’s prize winners,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan said. “They are model scholars who have achieved great academic success and they are model citizens who have made important contributions to the Princeton community and beyond. These students’ transcripts include an abundance of extra courses and A+ grades, and evidence of wide-ranging intellectual interests. We are proud of their deep commitment to their educational programs at Princeton.”

To read more about these exceptional students, including their work in research, click here.

On Saturday, October 6th, Rice University will host the 10th annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS)! GCURS provides current undergraduates the opportunity to present their original research discoveries to scholars from around the world. Not only does GCURS foster interdisciplinary, intercollegiate comraderie, it offers an introduction to Houston, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in the nation!

GCURS is not your usual poster session. In fact, we do not allow posters! Participants present original research discoveries in 12-15 minute individual, oral presentations to scholars from around the world. Following the presentations, faculty mentors provide coaching to each student. Past participants have shared that GCURS helps to foster interdisciplinary, intercollegiate fellowship.

They gathered in the lobby of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in dresses and suits, standing in front of posters showing computer-aided-design (CAD) drawings, mathematical equations, and line graphs, preparing to explain a summer of plasma physics research. On August 15, a cohort of undergraduate students who had participated in the Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) and Community College Internship (CCI) programs presented the results of the plasma physics work they had completed since their internships began on June 11, in projects touching on computer science, mechanical engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Over the course of eight weeks this summer, 73 incoming members of the Class of 2022 are immersing themselves in Princeton’s vibrant academic and social life through the University’s Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI).

FSI provides a group of incoming students, primarily those who are first in their family to attend college and those coming from lower- to moderate-income backgrounds, with an early opportunity to experience the many academic and co-curricular resources that Princeton has to offer. In FSI, they have the chance to take seminar-style and lab courses in their areas of interest, interact with faculty members, and engage with a diverse community of highly motivated peers. Through this experience, FSI scholars prepare to achieve their academic, social and professional goals and to take their place as leaders on campus — and in the larger world.

“FSI helped alleviate so many of the worries I had as an incoming freshman,” said Linda Nie, a member of the Class of 2021 and FSI course fellow who attended the program in 2017. “Personally, I owe a lot to this program, and I’m very grateful to have been a part of it. But more importantly, it helped me build confidence in my own abilities as a student here at Princeton.”

To take a look inside a typical week in the 2018 Freshman Scholars Institute, click here.

Aiming to prepare undergraduate students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs, JSI comprises a rigorous curriculum focused on writing, critical thinking, public speaking and quantitative reasoning skills. It requires coursework in economics and statistics, as well as policy workshops in international and domestic policy issues.

“The JSI is rigorous. It aims to prepare students from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented communities for graduate school, and ultimately, for influential roles serving the public good,” said Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School and the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education.

In a quiet corner of the Intelligent Robot Motion Lab at Princeton, Sourish Ghosh, a visiting student from the Indian Institute of Technology, is devising an algorithm to power a test-bed robot that is about the size of a dog and has the ability to run and jump.

Ghosh, who is working with Anirudha Majumdar, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, said the data that eventually will be collected by the robot — which he is fitting with a depth camera and an embedded AI computing device to explore its surroundings — could help guarantee the safety of a variety of autonomous devices. Ghosh said this might include self-driving cars, Mars rovers or even drones that could deliver medical supplies to remote areas of his home country.

This summer, Ghosh is one of 21 participants in the University’s International Student Internship Program (ISIP), which offers promising young scholars the opportunity to conduct research alongside Princeton faculty members. And while the interns learn about the research environment Princeton offers and campus life, they also contribute to the departments that host them.

The choices that people collectively make at dinner time — more burger, or more broccoli? — will impact the future of our warming planet. That’s because red meat consumption is widely recognized as a significant driver of a range of environmental woes, from climate change to deforestation and biodiversity loss.

But what could possibly encourage a more sustainable diet in a meat-loving country like the United States? As part of her senior thesis, Princeton student Cecilia Shang, who graduated in June, decided to test whether certain behavioral science-informed “nudges” at the dining hall might prove useful.

For Tyler Simko, politics is more than just a major: It is a means of effecting change in his community.

Simko, who graduated in June with high honors in politics and earned a certificate in statistics and machine learning, came to Princeton from South Amboy, New Jersey, where he was his high school valedictorian. Not only was Simko the first in his family to attend a four-year college, he was the first student from South Amboy Public Schools to attend an Ivy League university.

His experience as a student in the school district inspired him to run for the district’s board of education in 2013.

At a Sunday afternoon performance of “Trailing Rhiannon” this spring, Emma Watkins of the Class of 2018 sat atop the balcony of the Wallace Theater, anxiously watching the performance. Watkins, an English major, is no stranger to the theater; she had been on stage many times throughout high school as well as during her time at Princeton. However, this time was different than the others; this time, Watkins wrote the piece that her peers were performing.

“I had the opportunity to see my words, but spoken by somebody else, which was exhilarating,” she said. “But it’s also completely terrifying because suddenly you’re vulnerable in a completely new way.”

To learn more, click here to watch a short video on Watkins' senior thesis.

Katie Kennedy traveled to the Himalayas to study 250-year-old bridges made from living tree roots. Hans Hanley built a tool to close a loophole in online privacy. Meagan Yeh evaluated material for possible use in a fusion reactor.

For Princeton undergraduates, the senior thesis is a chance to pursue original research or creative work on a topic of their own choosing. All students earning bachelor’s degrees complete independent projects. Faculty advisers serve as guides for students as they learn to apply their knowledge in new ways. Below are descriptions of projects by seniors in the engineering school’s six departments.

How do archives, historical narratives, and social justice work hand-in-hand? As part of the Library’s inaugural Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program, 12 undergraduate students and two graduate students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the nation will explore this connection at Princeton University Library from July 9 to July 13, 2018.

A partnership between Princeton University Library and five participating HBCUs, the ARCH program will introduce students to the archival field, the importance of diversity in archival collections, how to use primary-source documents, and potential career opportunities. During their week on the Princeton campus, students will be engaged to think critically about how archives form historical narratives, particularly the connections between the archives and social justice.

Six Princeton University juniors have been selected this year to receive research support from the Princeton Environmental Institute's (PEI) Environmental Scholars Program to support their independent research related to the broad area of environmental studies.

Established in 2011 with a gift from Elizabeth A. Smith and Ray E. Newton III '86, the program supports students who have shown excellence in academics and summer apprenticeships, and who have a clearly articulated research agenda. Students apply in the fall semester and are selected by a committee to receive up to $15,000 over two years.

When Princeton University senior Alana Reynolds arrived in Mozambique last June to conduct fieldwork for her thesis, she realized that she had to see elephants differently if she wanted to help protect them.

When Princeton University senior Alana Reynolds arrived in Mozambique last June to conduct fieldwork for her thesis, she realized that she had to see elephants differently if she wanted to help protect them.

The Bogle Fellowship, now in its third year, offers first- year students the opportunity to develop a service or civic engagement-related project or internship and directly connect that summer experience to their academic work or career interests. All Bogle Fellows are a part of Service Focus, the new University program bridging service and learning across the first two years of the undergraduate experience.

This year’s cohort represents the breadth of service at Princeton. Fellows will be interning with political leaders in Washington, D.C., exploring urban development in Cincinnati, studying the impact of gentrification in Princeton, and more. Bogle Fellows explore and address issues they have identified in society through a variety of approaches, such as policy, advocacy, research, direct service or community activism.

Seniors and graduate students exhibited the topical diversity of environmental studies at Princeton University during the seventh annual PEI Discovery Day hosted by the Princeton Environmental Institute May 9 in the Frick Chemistry Lab Atrium. Ninety-six students representing 20 academic departments showcased their research and discussed their findings with fellow students and University faculty.

Before engineers can build a reactor to produce electricity from fusion, they have to make the reactor’s walls able to withstand the heat and energetic particles from the reactions. It is a hellish environment and requires a very special material.

Koel, who conducts research at the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has spent decades studying the surfaces of materials. Recently, he’s been investigating the materials science needed for fusion energy. Last year, he asked one of his undergraduate students — Meagan Yeh — to examine a new approach, and she undertook the effort as part of her senior thesis project.

Before engineers can build a reactor to produce electricity from fusion, they have to make the reactor’s walls able to withstand the heat and energetic particles from the reactions. It is a hellish environment and requires a very special material.

Six Princeton undergraduates have been named 2018 Mellon Mays fellows, marking the 30th group of Princeton students who have been selected for the prestigious national award aimed at diversifying faculty at colleges and universities.

Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program facilitates funding for undergraduate research and graduate school studies to prepare students for professorial careers. The fellowship provides support, community, mentorship and other resources to students from underrepresented backgrounds and/or students who have a demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion.

This year’s fellows are Class of 2020 members Kenji Cataldo, Oluwatoyin Edogun, Yousef Elzalabany, Jaylin Lugardo, Matthew Oakland and Rasheeda Saka. Edogun was named a Mellon Residential Associate Fellow with support from Princeton for her fellowship, while the other students were named Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows and will receive funding directly from the Mellon Foundation.

Spend the day — or an hour — at Princeton Research Day, and you get an eclectic tour of research at Princeton University shared through presentations designed to make cutting-edge work accessible to the general public.

For Sarah-Jane Leslie, dean of the Graduate School and the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy, that tour included learning how engineers can learn lessons from plants; about new techniques to fight disease; and about novel ways to address the world’s energy crisis.

Speaking at the event’s concluding awards ceremony in Frist Campus Center on Thursday, May 10, Leslie said she came away thinking that “Princeton students and researchers might just save the world.”

The third annual event featured more than 190 talks and posters by undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other campus researchers from engineering, social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and the arts.

The fellows have designed their own projects or internships in conjunction with host organizations outside the United States. During their summer abroad, students will deepen their understanding of an academic or professional area of interest while expanding their perspectives through cultural immersion.

Art, war, contraception, economic volatility, “Pirates of the Caribbean” — the senior theses produced by Princeton undergraduates represent their academic interests and personal passions. The first line of each thesis provides an instant glimpse into a year or more worth of research, writing and close collaboration with a faculty adviser.

Over the last few weeks, as seniors completed their theses, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students has recorded and received more than 30 videos of students reading the first line. Check out a selection of their Instagram posts and a transcription of the students’ remarks here, and visit their Instagram account, @princeton_odus, to see more.

When the Khan family left Pakistan with their three young children, they never imagined that their then-3-year-old daughter would return as a student at Princeton University, let alone that she would be tackling a problem that has frustrated global health researchers.

Khan researched polio her junior year and wrote her spring junior paper about how successes in smallpox eradication can inform polio and measles elimination. “I have a personal connection to the topic,” she explained. “When my aunt was a child, there was a lack of knowledge of and access to vaccinations. She got polio, and because of that, she’s now paralyzed from the waist down. Knowing that vaccination would have prevented this from happening has influenced why I care so deeply about this topic.”

When the Khan family left Pakistan with their three young children, they never imagined that their then-3-year-old daughter would return as a student at Princeton University, let alone that she would be tackling a problem that has frustrated global health researchers.

Taylor Griffith wanted her senior thesis to focus on strong black female leads on television shows, so she began her investigation the way most students do, by checking the available literature. But when the Princeton student made her first trip to B Floor at Firestone Library, she came up short.

“I looked all over,” said Griffith, a sociology major who also is earning a certificate in gender and sexuality studies. “There’s a book on Oprah, and there’s a book on Cosby. There are five books on ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s absolutely nothing on the television shows I’m interested in.”

She punched her topic into Google, searching for books about the slew of current television series that feature black women as lead characters, shows like “Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder,” both produced by Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’ production company. “To my knowledge, there is not a single, in-depth book analysis of Shonda Rhimes’ shows or the shows I have opted to look at,” Griffith said. “It was baffling to me.”

What she did find was plenty of research on the television industry as it relates to black women, African Americans, stereotypes, racism and feminism. But the intersection of these topics and how they coalesce on the small screen is a little-studied frontier. “It’s very exciting in that respect,” Griffith said.

Taylor Griffith wanted her senior thesis to focus on strong black female leads on television shows, so she began her investigation the way most students do, by checking the available literature. But when the Princeton student made her first trip to B Floor at Firestone Library, she came up short.

The Lewis Center for the Arts announces more than $115,000 in awards to support the summer projects and research of 45 Princeton undergraduates, chosen from 85 applicants. For many recipients, the funding provides the resources to conduct research, undertake training, and pursue other opportunities critical to achieving their senior thesis project goals in the arts.

To read more about the pursuits of some of these students, click here.

Several new research projects that promise to expand the bounds of knowledge have been selected to receive funding through Princeton’s Office of the Dean for Research.

The Dean for Research Innovation Funds are awarded annually to promising and forward-looking research across various subject areas and disciplines. This year’s funded projects range from open-ended studies in the natural and social sciences to targeted questions in cancer research, communications technology and sustainability. The projects are chosen by faculty-led committees based on the quality, originality and potential impact of the research.

Jaehwan Kim ’18 spent the summer working with José Avalos, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, on a bioengineering project, sponsored by the Andlinger Center’s summer internship program. Video by Greta Shum.

Health Professions Advising (HPA) helps students and alumni as they consider a medical or health care career. Each year, HPA assists more than 100 students and alumni who apply to medical, dental and other professional schools. The office also works with undergraduates throughout their time at Princeton, helping students explore academic and career options starting their first year on campus.

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Nor are doctors defined by their family backgrounds, how high they scored on standardized tests or their college majors.

“A lot of people assume there is only one type of person or one route to becoming a doctor,” Fukawa-Connelly said. “That is wrong. The health care system needs many different people with diverse talents and experiences.”

Health Professions Advising (HPA) helps any student considering a medical or health care career. The office works with undergraduates throughout their four years at Princeton and with alumni who apply to medical, dental and other professional schools. HPA is part of the Office of the Dean of the College.

To read more about HPA and their work with undergraduates, click here.

Princeton senior Jamie Hintson has been awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as research assistants to senior scholars at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Hintson, who is from Easley, South Carolina, is a politics major who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in political science with a focus on international relations, and a career in academia.

He is one of 12 students from around the country to be selected as Gaither Junior Fellows, each specializing in a different topic or region.

She is one of 18 students from around the country to be awarded 2018 Beinecke Scholarships, which provide each winner with $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. The awards were established in 1971 and are administered by the Sperry Fund.

In April 2018, the city of Trenton will mark the 50th anniversary of violence that followed the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To examine the civil unrest through two disciplines, documentary film and history, Woodrow Wilson School Documentary Film Specialist Purcell Carson and History Professor Alison Isenberg are leading an initiative called The Trenton Project.

On Monday, April 9, 2018–the 50th anniversary of the shooting of Harlan Joseph–the public is invited to The Trenton Project Remembers April 9, 1968toview clips from the documentary film, discuss research findings, and participate in this reframing of Trenton’s history. The event is one of a series of conversations, film screenings, and symposia related to the 50th anniversaries of the tumultuous events around the world in 1968 titled 1968/2018 Cities on the Edge, offered this spring by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities and the Humanities Council.

Posted 03/26/18. Applications accepted on a rolling basic. Program offers students and recent college graduates opportunities to learn about the mission of the DOE-EM office and to receive specialized training and practical experience on the safe cleanup of environmental projects stemming from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored energy research.

Apply by 04/04/18. Scholarships for socially responsible, progressive, and driven women of high academic and moral caliber who have secured an unpaid or underpaid summer position (internship, fellowship, research assistantship, etc.) in a STEM-related field. Scholarship intended to cover cost of living and some travel expenses for those who otherwise would not be able to afford such an opportunity.

Apply by 04/07/18. This NSF supported program provides students with an opportunity to perform independent research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Participants receive a $5,750 stipend ($575 per week), travel subsidy and complimentary housing in a UNLV dormitory. The program dates are May 30 to Aug 3, 2018.

Apply by 05/30/18. Interns are appointed to one of 17 participating DOE laboratories/facilities for 16 weeks during the Fall 2018 term. They perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting the DOE mission. Recent grads may apply as a "Graduating Senior" if they haven’t started/won’t start a program of graduate study prior to completing the SULI term.

On a hot morning last August, Princeton University rising sophomore Young Joo Choi crouched in the receding shade of a house in West Trenton, New Jersey, firing gamma rays into the dirt along the foundation.

It’s here that soil contamination from lead-based paint tends to be highest.

Choi used a handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) reader, an instrument that measures the most minute concentrations of elements in the object or substance it’s pointed at. Behind her, rising senior Elizabeth Stanley waited to record the readings. As the whir of cicadas overtook the quiet residential street, Stanley talked with Hinake Kawabe, a rising junior, about the water samples they had collected inside, as well as their XRF readings from the home’s doors, windows and lower interior walls.

After Choi reported that the soil was negative for lead contamination, the three packed up their samples and equipment for the trip across town to the next house as the heat and humidity of midday set in.

Are you in the class of 2021? Are you considering STEM? Apply here to take Measuring Climate Change: Methods in Data Analysis & Scientific Writing in Fall 2018!

Explore questions like: how is climate changing now, and how do we measure it? How have ancient climate changes been preserved in modern landscapes? In workshops, labs, and on a 9-day filed trip to the American Southwest, you’ll gain practical experience collecting climatological data (using drones!) and analyzing these data using software and programming languages like ArcGIS and Matlab. You’ll learn how to use the research and writing process recursively to hone your ideas, and how to communicate original research effectively within the formal structure of journal-style scientific writing and the LaTeX typesetting language. Emerge with the concrete skills and confidence you’ll need to tackle your JP and thesis.

While most young people use social media to be social, Princeton senior Masoomali Fatehkia is using it to advance social good.

Fatehkia, who is majoring in operations research and financial engineering, logged innumerable hours on Facebook last summer, but not in the usual way. While pursuing an internship in Doha at the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, he examined the potential use of Facebook’s advertising audience estimates as a data source to shed new light on the digital gender gap worldwide.

As a capstone to the fall course “The Ethics of Borders and Migration,” 11 Princeton undergraduates and one graduate student traveled north to Buffalo, New York, to learn about the city’s refugee resettlement efforts.

The course and long-weekend trip were led by Anna Stilz, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, who is also director of the Program in Values and Public Life. Her current research and second book, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, focus on territorial sovereignty, a subject closely related to refugees. Over the past decade, Buffalo has become a major center for refugee resettlement in the Northeast, resettling about 12,000 refugees. Close to the Canadian border, Buffalo is also a destination for asylum seekers from around the world who are trying to press claims in Canada, which processes claims more expeditiously — and often more favorably to refugees — than the United States.

From state-of-the-art theater lighting to microscopes that can visualize the delicate vascular system of a fruit fly, Princeton undergraduates are getting their hands on some of the most sophisticated equipment available today. Across the arts, natural and social sciences, humanities, and engineering, Princeton offers courses that provide self-directed exploration and experimentation using facilities that on other campuses are only available to graduate students or staff researchers.

The courses featured in this video series, usually taken during junior year, enable students to conduct independent research or creative work for their senior thesis, a months-long research project required for most students as a capstone to their Princeton experience.

Nine outstanding juniors have been named the 2018 cohort of PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows.

The Undergraduate Fellows Program provides juniors with support to undertake international research for their senior theses. Those accepted into the program work with a PIIRS faculty member during the spring semester of their junior year to develop a proposal for summer research towards the senior thesis. Upon successful completion of the program — including attendance at required meetings in which students sharpen their research questions and methodology, learn more about various aspects of international research and develop a budget for their project — students are awarded funds for summer research.

“The PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows Program provides highly motivated undergraduates with the time, training and guidance to develop a sophisticated and successful senior thesis based on international research,” said Julia Elyachar, an associate professor of anthropology and adviser of the fellowship program. “The students work at a level that is more typically associated with graduate students. Their research shows that substantive theoretical and methodological contributions in the social sciences are often made through experiential knowledge of region and place.”

Read more about the new group of PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows and their proposed research here.

The Ivy League Undergraduate Research Symposium is excited to announce the launch of the inaugural Ivy League Undergraduate Research Journal. The journal hopes to serve as a platform for scholarly, interdisciplinary discourse among the brightest students across the Ivy League. ILURJ will accept submissions in the four academic divisions of the Symposium: Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Art & Humanities, Social & Economic Sciences, and Engineering & Applied Sciences. ILURJ is seeking outstanding undergraduate research papers from seminars, senior theses programs, independent studies, and research programs/fellowships.

Your submission must include an abstract (300 words limit) and a paper (15 pages single-spaced limit). This must be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman font and 1 inch margins. ILURJ will begin to accept submissions on Thursday, March 1 and all submissions will be due by Saturday, March 31. All submissions must be sent through the link on the ILURS website. Submissions will be reviewed by an esteemed faculty panel, and those chosen for publication will be notified on April 15.

Princeton University students are invited to submit a paper to ILURJ. Should you be selected, you will have the opportunity to display your research to the Ivy League community.

'Michelle Obama says an unimpressed professor's recommendation letter nearly jeopardized her acceptance into Harvard Law School, according to a Refinery29 interview published Thursday. However, her ability to overcome negativity while studying sociology at Princeton helped her succeed.

"When I went to my thesis advisor for a letter of recommendation for law school, he did the best thing he possibly could have done: He gave a brutally honest response," Obama said.

"You know, you're a good student," Obama said her advisor told her, "but are you the best I've seen? I'm not sure."'

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/02/18. Students have the opportunity to perform basic research in multiple areas, including human health, injury, and disease; animal locomotion; plant diseases; biological transport in the environment; and bio-inspired technologies. In addition, career development components will contribute to improving written and oral presentation skills. Program dates: May 28 through July 28, 2018

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

Princeton seniors John “Newby” Parton and Maggie Pecsok have been named co-winners of the University’s 2017 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

They will be recognized at a luncheon during Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 24.

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership. Previous recipients include the late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. Goheen, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Princeton senior Ugonna Nwabueze, a first-generation Nigerian American, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but the stories her father told her about being a child soldier in the Nigerian civil war, which began in 1967, haunted her.

Her family history would influence one of her two senior thesis projects, a production of “Eclipsed” by Tony Award-winning playwright Danai Gurira, for which Nwabueze researched, produced and played a leading role.

“Eclipsed” follows five Liberian women during the second Liberian civil war — the captive wives of a rebel officer who form a fragile community in a dilapidated, one-bedroom shack. Gurira based the script on interviews she conducted with Liberian women. A note from Gurira at the top of the published script states the importance of research to anyone who produces the play — Nwabueze took those words to heart.

To read more about Nwabueze and her experiences producing "Eclipsed," click here.

Princeton senior Ugonna Nwabueze, a first-generation Nigerian American, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but the stories her father told her about being a child soldier in the Nigerian civil war, which began in 1967, haunted her.

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Apply by 02/26/18. Position is part of the NASA Pathways Intern Program. Work under the mentorship/supervision of senior researchers on problems relating to the prediction and control of aircraft noise - including advanced configurations and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). Scope of work can range from mechanical design and research into the fundamental physics of aerodynamic noise generation.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/02/18. Students have the opportunity to perform basic research in multiple areas, including human health, injury, and disease; animal locomotion; plant diseases; biological transport in the environment; and bio-inspired technologies. In addition, career development components will contribute to improving written and oral presentation skills. Program dates: May 28 through July 28, 2018

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

In the fall, Princeton junior Nico Viglucci taught himself to weld. His goal? Creating a rack to hold solar panels atop an old school bus Viglucci is painstakingly converting into a mobile “tiny house” filled with energy-saving add-ons and an experimental heating and cooling system. The bus will also be outfitted with monitors to collect data about its energy use.

“Princeton is very big on theoretical academics,” said Viglucci, who is majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Gesturing to the massive rack on the floor, he said: “This is very hands-on. On the spectrum, it’s all the way on the other side.”

Viglucci’s “School Bus Tiny House” is one of more than a dozen projects supported in 2017 by the High Meadows Foundation Sustainability Fund, which is administered by the Office of Sustainability. Since 2008, it has awarded grants of up to $10,000 to Princeton students, faculty and staff who have an idea that exists at the intersection of sustainability and tangible action. The fund highlights “measurable outcomes that will contribute to cultivating a sustainability ethos on campus.”

To read more about student research supported but the High Meadows Foundation Sustainability Fund, head here.

Princeton senior Gabriel Joseph and Class of 2015 graduate Brett Diehl have been named Knight-Hennessy Scholars to pursue graduate studies at Stanford University.

Diehl and Joseph are among 49 students from around the world selected as the inaugural cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars. The recipients will receive full funding to pursue any graduate degree at Stanford, including master’s and doctoral programs. Diehl plans to earn a J.D. from Stanford Law School and Joseph will earn his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine.

Come join Princeton faculty, staff researchers, students and collaborators at the PRISM Annual Research Symposiumon March 13-14, 2018, at Maeder Hall Auditorium. Speakers will discuss the latest materials science research as well as ways to bring technologies out of the lab and into wider use through collaborations and entrepreneurship.

The program includes a round table on technology innovation and translation, tours of our new multi-user imaging and fabrication facilities, and a receptionand poster session on the evening of March 13 to highlight a wide array of on-going graduate and undergraduate research projects and STEM education efforts.

Held to coincide with New Jersey STEM Week, the PRISM symposium will highlight successful research collaborations as well opportunities for new collaborations. Keynote talks feature leaders from industry, national labs and academia, and will explore promising opportunities that build on materials characterization, synthesis and processing that range from atomic- to world-scale, and ultimately are translated into real-world use.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 02/05/18. Since 1898, the Booth School has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Seven Booth faculty members have won Nobel prizes - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. Research Associate works w/microeconomics professors to collect data, maintain databases, conduct statistical analysis and provide other support with faculty research.Position is 1-2 years.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/15/18. SURE is designed to provide a stimulating hands-on research experience for undergrads considering graduate education in the biomedical sciences. Program runs May 29- August 3, 2018. Research available include developmental biology, inflammatory mediators, aging, gene expression, stem cells, and cancer biology.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Apply by 02/26/18. Position is part of the NASA Pathways Intern Program. Work under the mentorship/supervision of senior researchers on problems relating to the prediction and control of aircraft noise - including advanced configurations and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). Scope of work can range from mechanical design and research into the fundamental physics of aerodynamic noise generation.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

Navarrete chose Princeton because of the research opportunities it provides at the undergraduate level and its smaller class sizes. Outside of the classroom, he is a member of the student organization Princeton Latinos y Amigos.

In the Q&A below, he reflects on his path to Princeton, his inspiration for pursuing a career in science, and his hopes for prospective students who come from backgrounds similar to his.

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Posted 01/29/18. Goal of the program is to provide an intensive faculty-mentored 10-week research experience. Experiences at the lab bench or in front of a computer will be supplemented with activities to promote interactions between students, peers, senior colleagues, faculty mentors, and expose students to science outside the laboratory. Weekly stipend and commuting/housing assistance provided.

Posted 02/05/18. Since 1898, the Booth School has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Seven Booth faculty members have won Nobel prizes - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. Research Associate works w/microeconomics professors to collect data, maintain databases, conduct statistical analysis and provide other support with faculty research. Position is 1-2 years.

Posted 02/05/18. Summer Research opportunity for student in ELE, COS, or related major to work in NEC’s Optical Networking and Sensing Research Department. The successful candidate will participate in the development of data-driven social infrastructure solutions. Candidate should be able to work independently and as part of a team, show critical thinking and fast learning ability in their approach to problem solving.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/15/18. SURE is designed to provide a stimulating hands-on research experience for undergrads considering graduate education in the biomedical sciences. Program runs May 29- August 3, 2018. Research available include developmental biology, inflammatory mediators, aging, gene expression, stem cells, and cancer biology.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Apply by 02/26/18. Position is part of the NASA Pathways Intern Program. Work under the mentorship/supervision of senior researchers on problems relating to the prediction and control of aircraft noise - including advanced configurations and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). Scope of work can range from mechanical design and research into the fundamental physics of aerodynamic noise generation.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

We are pleased to announce that the 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference (MAUSRC) will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018. This conference will be held at Villanova University and sponsored by the Department of Sociology & Criminology.

Come join more than 100 students, faculty, and staff from diverse disciplines such as Anthropology, Global Studies, Sociology, and Education from institutions across the Mid-Atlantic region including Elizabethtown College, the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Haverford College, Temple University and Drexel University.

The conference will convene from 9:30am-4pm and the day’s events will include an inspiring keynote speaker, a complimentary lunch, and exciting opportunities for undergraduate students to present their own research as well as to hear what their peers across the region have been investigating.

Here is a sample of students’ experiences at previous MAUSRCs:

"It was a great opportunity to see what other students are researching and to exchange ideas. It also gave me the chance to get over my fear of presenting at a conference.”

“It was fun and a great learning experience for me.”

There is no fee to register or participate in the conference. Undergraduate student participants and their project advisors will be treated to an opening reception and lunch.

Undergraduates at Princeton are invited to the 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference. Abstracts of submissions are due Friday, April 13, 2017. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about conference registration and abstract submission on the departmental website.

Don’t miss out on this valuable opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with young scholars across the region! You are welcome to check out highlights from previous conferences held at Villanova including the 2017 MAUSRC, 2015 MAUSRC, 2014 MAUSRC, and 2013 MAUSRC.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 01/08/18. Full-time 12-month research opportunity in the Virus and Prion Research Unit in Ames, IA. The participant's overall research activities are to execute technical methods, experimentation and procedures; conduct laboratory maintenance and safety practices; and collect, analyze, and maintain physical and electronic data in support of the Intervention Strategies to Control IAV Infection in Swine project plan.

Posted 01/15/18. Researcher at UCSF seeks recent/upcoming senior for a FT position in his lab studying cell cycle regulation (yeast and tissue culture). Prior research experience in cell biology, MolBio, or genetics. Fun, dynamic lab with mix of students and postdocs. Click title above to email: include current dept/major, GPA, and name/dates/contact info of the lab(s) in which you worked. Please put "SRA" into the subject line.

Posted 01/29/18. Analytical Development and Commercialization - Pharmaceuticals group. Support product formulation and process development for new Merck products utilizing various analytical techniques. In particular, product support includes: Process and product characterization; Clinical study support including release and stability testing; and Analytical method development and validation.

Posted 01/29/18. Support the development of gene editing-based therapies. Contribute as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary discovery team dedicated to the development of a novel class of therapeutics. The successful candidate should have proven practical experience in molecular biology, specifically in plasmid design and production, and cell culture.

Posted 01/29/18. Goal of the program is to provide an intensive faculty-mentored 10-week research experience. Experiences at the lab bench or in front of a computer will be supplemented with activities to promote interactions between students, peers, senior colleagues, faculty mentors, and expose students to science outside the laboratory. Weekly stipend and commuting/housing assistance provided.

Apply by 02/01/18. An opportunity for undergraduates to receive an educational experience in biomedical research. Research at MMCRI covers a broad area in biomedical science including vascular biology, stem cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, hematology, nephrology, tumor biology, and molecular genetics as well as outcomes research, vector-borne diseases, and clinical research.

Apply by 02/02/18. Opportunity for students to participate in 11 weeks of mentored, paid, independent research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, wildlife dynamics, and species diversity.

Apply by 02/02/18. Molecular Engineering seeks engineering majors interested in research at interface of engineering and cancer biology. Molecular Imaging seeks students interested in research at the interface of cancer biology and chemistry & imaging. Program open to first-, second-, and third-year students.

Apply by 02/05/18. Spend summer break working alongside USC’s world-class faculty on cutting-edge research in engineering and computer science. Participants will gain valuable research experience and receive a stipend for living expenses in Los Angeles. Housing and transportation will also be provided. Seeking outstanding sophomores and juniors in engineering or computer science.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/15/18. SURE is designed to provide a stimulating hands-on research experience for undergrads considering graduate education in the biomedical sciences. Program runs May 29- August 3, 2018. Research available include developmental biology, inflammatory mediators, aging, gene expression, stem cells, and cancer biology.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks

After senior Faridah Laffan read the work of Brazilian art and architecture historian Amy Buono describing the Portuguese influence on Brazilian religious objects, she was intrigued. The history major found the relationship fascinating and was convinced that the subject matter would make a great topic for her senior thesis, especially if she could travel abroad and experience this unique part of history for herself.

In fact, she did. Laffan and nine of her classmates had the opportunity to travel internationally this past summer after applying and being accepted into the undergraduate fellowship program administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). While Laffan spent several weeks studying azulejos, or painted tiles made in Portugal, other students took on projects such as researching refugee camps in Calais, France, and learning about travel along the Congo River.

Through the fellowship program, PIIRS provides the necessary funding for students to travel in order to really delve into their subject matter and conduct the research necessary to write their senior theses. Academic support is also part of the equation. The cohort of students and the fellowship adviser meet regularly before and after their travel to fine-tune their projects, which often pivot after the research abroad.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 01/08/18. Full-time 12-month research opportunity in the Virus and Prion Research Unit in Ames, IA. The participant's overall research activities are to execute technical methods, experimentation and procedures; conduct laboratory maintenance and safety practices; and collect, analyze, and maintain physical and electronic data in support of the Intervention Strategies to Control IAV Infection in Swine project plan.

Posted 01/15/18. Researcher at UCSF seeks recent/upcoming senior for a FT position in his lab studying cell cycle regulation (yeast and tissue culture). Prior research experience in cell biology, MolBio, or genetics. Fun, dynamic lab with mix of students and postdocs. Click title above to email: include current dept/major, GPA, and name/dates/contact info of the lab(s) in which you worked. Please put "SRA" into the subject line.

Apply by 02/01/18. An opportunity for undergraduates to receive an educational experience in biomedical research. Research at MMCRI covers a broad area in biomedical science including vascular biology, stem cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, hematology, nephrology, tumor biology, and molecular genetics as well as outcomes research, vector-borne diseases, and clinical research.

Apply by 02/02/18. Opportunity for students to participate in 11 weeks of mentored, paid, independent research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, wildlife dynamics, and species diversity.

Apply by 02/02/18. Molecular Engineering seeks engineering majors interested in research at interface of engineering and cancer biology. Molecular Imaging seeks students interested in research at the interface of cancer biology and chemistry & imaging. Program open to first-, second-, and third-year students.

Apply by 02/05/18. Spend summer break working alongside USC’s world-class faculty on cutting-edge research in engineering and computer science. Participants will gain valuable research experience and receive a stipend for living expenses in Los Angeles. Housing and transportation will also be provided. Seeking outstanding sophomores and juniors in engineering or computer science.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/15/18. SURE is designed to provide a stimulating hands-on research experience for undergrads considering graduate education in the biomedical sciences. Program runs May 29- August 3, 2018. Research available include developmental biology, inflammatory mediators, aging, gene expression, stem cells, and cancer biology.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Apply by 02/28/18. Six-week course, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), designed to provide undergrads w/comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. Program dates: June 11-July 20, 2018. The program will also include a field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

Apply by 03/09/18, latest. Research opportunities with faculty members on campus, as well as with non-profit organizations off campus, are listed below. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

Established in 2006, SINSI is designed to encourage, support and prepare the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the U.S. federal government, in both international and domestic agencies. Through rigorous academic training integrated with work experience, the goal of the highly competitive scholarship program is to provide students with the language and workplace skills needed to succeed in the public policy arena.

Princeton seniors and first-year Master in Public Affairs students were invited to apply for the graduate scholarship, with four graduate scholars admitted from the applicant pool. In addition, all sophomores and juniors were invited to apply for SINSI internships; six students were admitted.

Like much of humanity, Henry Birge-Lee simply wanted to visit YouTube. Yet his high school in Los Angeles had blocked classroom computers from visiting the site on the grounds that it posed a non-educational distraction — a hardly baseless accusation, as evidenced by YouTube’s millions of cat videos.

The experience got Birge-Lee interested in how network security manages the complex, occasionally treacherous interface between computers and the internet. It turned out he had a knack for the craft. His high school computer science team went on to win a national championship at CyberPatriot, a security competition held by an aerospace education nonprofit.

Now as an undergraduate student at Princeton, Birge-Lee has continued his streak. He is part of a research team that has pioneered a protection against potential cyberattacks that a major internet security firm has already begun rolling out.

The project focuses on “digital certificates.” These electronic documents allow for secure, private communications between a user’s computer and an online site. Cybercriminals have methods for obtaining fake certificates, however, that trick users into sharing sensitive information. In their project, Birge-Lee and colleagues demonstrated a new and harder-to-detect form of this subterfuge; and then they demonstrated new countermeasures to protect against it.

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE) at Princeton University is inviting undergraduates to apply for paid summer internships. Funding will be provided for research projects performed under the direction of faculty doing research in areas related to the center’s mission of finding solutions to secure our energy and environmental future. If selected, current freshmen, sophomores, or juniors will receive a $4,000 stipend for eight weeks of summer research and up to $4,000 for research related expenses.

Internships at non-profit organizations outside the University are also being offered for summer 2018. If selected for an internship with an outside organization, a student will receive a $4,000 stipend for eight weeks of summer research plus a travel award.

A list of available energy-related research projects may be found here. Alternatively, a student may self-initiate a project with a faculty member of his/her choice. Application instructions and a link to the Student Activities Funding Engine (SAFE) can be found here.

The final deadline for submitting applications is March 9, 2018. Research must begin no later than June 25, 2018 and last at least eight weeks.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Posted 01/08/18. Full-time 12-month research opportunity in the Virus and Prion Research Unit in Ames, IA. The participant's overall research activities are to execute technical methods, experimentation and procedures; conduct laboratory maintenance and safety practices; and collect, analyze, and maintain physical and electronic data in support of the Intervention Strategies to Control IAV Infection in Swine project plan.

Posted 01/15/18. Researcher at UCSF seeks recent/upcoming senior for a FT position in his lab studying cell cycle regulation (yeast and tissue culture). Prior research experience in cell biology, MolBio, or genetics. Fun, dynamic lab with mix of students and postdocs. Click title above to email: include current dept/major, GPA, and name/dates/contact info of the lab(s) in which you worked. Please put "SRA" into the subject line.

Apply by 01/19/18. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur looking for more than an internship this summer, Lightspeed’s Fellowship Program is like a scholarship and an entrepreneurial boot camp all rolled into 10 weeks - we provide funding, office space, mentorship and a platform so you can spend your summer devoted to entrepreneurship and launching your idea into a company.

Apply by 02/01/18. An opportunity for undergraduates to receive an educational experience in biomedical research. Research at MMCRI covers a broad area in biomedical science including vascular biology, stem cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, hematology, nephrology, tumor biology, and molecular genetics as well as outcomes research, vector-borne diseases, and clinical research.

Apply by 02/02/18. Opportunity for students to participate in 11 weeks of mentored, paid, independent research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, wildlife dynamics, and species diversity.

Apply by 02/02/18. Molecular Engineering seeks engineering majors interested in research at interface of engineering and cancer biology. Molecular Imaging seeks students interested in research at the interface of cancer biology and chemistry & imaging. Program open to first-, second-, and third-year students.

Apply by 02/05/18. Spend summer break working alongside USC’s world-class faculty on cutting-edge research in engineering and computer science. Participants will gain valuable research experience and receive a stipend for living expenses in Los Angeles. Housing and transportation will also be provided. Seeking outstanding sophomores and juniors in engineering or computer science.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Apply by 03/09/18. Hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities, exciting projects from multidisciplinary faculty, weekly career development seminars, workshops, and field trips, group social activities, and presentations in research symposiums. Stipend, travel allowance, and room & board included. Selections based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications and STEM faculty recommendations.

As Keo Chan of the Class of 2018 flew into Dunedin, New Zealand, to begin his semester abroad, a giant rainbow appeared over the airport. It was a “lucky sign,” he said, that he was in the right place.

Keo Chan, a geosciences major, spent a semester abroad studying aquaculture and fisheries in New Zealand through a combination of courses, labs and fieldwork.

If you had told Chan, a native New Yorker, that his Princeton education would include studying fjords in the South Island of New Zealand, he might not have believed you. But a gut instinct and some helpful advice from the Office of International Programs were all it took for him to decide on a spring semester abroad at the University of Otago.

Chan, a geosciences major with a specific interest in fisheries science, said he knew that studying at a university abroad would nudge him out of his comfort zone while enhancing his academic portfolio.

At many colleges, students who are interested in science will enroll in multiple introductory courses, learning about genetics and chemistry and physics and computer programming as separate and largely unrelated disciplines. At Princeton, students have another option: the Integrated Science Curriculum (ISC). Four courses co-taught by multiple professors make up the integrated science curriculum — two classes in the fall, two in the spring.

“The labs have really been comprehensive,” said first-year student Bianca Swidler. “I feel like there’s been a great coverage of chemistry, physics, biology — it’s really hard to pick a favorite, like picking a favorite kid.”

Head here to learn more about the innovative Integrated Science Curriculum.

"Imagine the best lecture possible on every different topic but all squeezed into 90 seconds, or 10 minutes, or one poster - and getting to pick and choose and learn a million things. That’s Princeton Research Day.” - Kat Giordano '18.

Princeton Research Day is an exciting opportunity for campus researchers to come together and share their past and current research. Don't miss out on your opportunity to present. The application deadline is February 16th!

There is an exciting opportunity for undergraduate researchers in Philadelphia, PA at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA)! SRSA is a regional scholarly organization for the advancement of regional science, which draws from various disciplines including economics, geography, and urban planning. The SRSA Meeting will be held from March 15th through March 17th, 2018.

This year, the SRSA Meeting will include the second annual undergraduate research poster session as well as other activities targeted at exposing undergraduate students to research and regional science and making the conference meaningful for participating undergraduates. The poster session will include 3 to 5 minute presentations by each student describing the poster and research, followed by informal browsing and discussion about the posters.

SRSA will waive the registration fee for undergraduate students who participate in this session! Each student will be required to have a faculty sponsor (whether or not the sponsor is able to attend).

To encourage exploration of regional science and research by undergraduate students, SRSA accept a relatively broad range of research topics. Broadly, regional science encompasses research related to the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change and participants at the SRSA conference include economists, resource economists, geographers, demographers, urban planners, and even sociologists and community designers.

The SRSA crowd is very welcoming and encouraging to young scholars and it is an excellent venue for undergraduates that are new to academic conferences. students interested in presenting at this conference should look into applying to the Undergraduate Fund for Academic Conferences for funding support. Additional information can be found at the links below. Any questions may be emailed to Christa D. Court at ccourt@ufl.edu.

Apply by 01/13/18. Ten-week summer program with the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. The goal of the program is to improve opportunities for women and minority students in these fields, however all eligible candidates are encouraged to apply. Placements include national laboratories including Oak Ridge, Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos.

Apply by 01/15/18. With the Solar Energy Technologies Office at the U.S. DOE in Washington, D.C. Establish & implement new initiatives to make solar energy more affordable and reliable by designing national R&D strategies for advancing photovoltaic and concentrated solar power technology. Open to applicants holding bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degrees of all quantitative backgrounds.

Apply by 01/15/18. Develop and implement an independent scholarship agenda, with guidance from faculty mentors. Participate in activities and intellectual life of the department, and study ethical issues regarding conduct of research, clinical practice, genetics, and health policy. Fellowships are two years in length and stipends are based on applicant's previous experience and current US government schedule.

Apply by 01/19/18. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur looking for more than an internship this summer, Lightspeed’s Fellowship Program is like a scholarship and an entrepreneurial boot camp all rolled into 10 weeks - we provide funding, office space, mentorship and a platform so you can spend your summer devoted to entrepreneurship and launching your idea into a company.

Apply by 02/01/18. An opportunity for undergraduates to receive an educational experience in biomedical research. Research at MMCRI covers a broad area in biomedical science including vascular biology, stem cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, hematology, nephrology, tumor biology, and molecular genetics as well as outcomes research, vector-borne diseases, and clinical research.

Apply by 02/02/18. Opportunity for students to participate in 11 weeks of mentored, paid, independent research focusing on the effects of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global climate change, hurricanes, forest harvest, wildlife dynamics, and species diversity.

Apply by 02/02/18. Molecular Engineering seeks engineering majors interested in research at interface of engineering and cancer biology. Molecular Imaging seeks students interested in research at the interface of cancer biology and chemistry & imaging. Program open to first-, second-, and third-year students.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

Apply by 02/15/18. The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscale research at the interface of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Program includes hands-on research in state-of-the-art facilities; Poster session, awards banquet, field trips, social activities, outreach opportunities, mentoring; Stipend, travel allowance, room & board.

Apply by 02/15/18. Interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscale material structures. A range of projects is available in both experimental and theoretical/simulation fields. Program activities include mentored research and presentations, field trip to a national or industrial lab, beach party for social networking, panel discussion on graduate school admissions, and seminars by faculty and graduate students.

Apply by 02/16/18. Ten-week summer internship at UC San Diego, in La Jolla, CA. Program is a great opportunity for inquisitive and motivated undergraduate students with exceptional aptitude for quantitative science majoring in Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology to work with some of the most notable scientists in the world while earning a modest salary.

Apply by 02/16/18. Challenging program for rising juniors and seniors in science and engineering to learn and perform research in laboratories in a broad selection of materials science subfields. Includes stipend and round-trip travel, hosted presentations, and group discussions. At conclusion of program, students present their individual research results at a poster session.

Students in the course ENV 304: "Disease Ecology, Economics and Policy" gathered in the Guyot Atrium Dec. 14 to present posters of their research projects for the Fall 2017 semester. Taught by PEI associated faculty Bryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, the course focuses on the emergence and spread of disease in the context of disease ecology, economics and human behavior.

The Princeton Environmental Institute is taking applications for paid, full-time internships for Summer 2018. These 8-12 week internships provide hands-on experience in environmentally focused research on campus or around the world, and include a stipend for travel and expenses.

Princeton first-year students, sophomores and juniors can apply for up to 3 of the established internships with Princeton faculty or a partner organization. Final applications for established internships are dueMarch 27 — but students can apply by the priority deadline of Jan. 12 to get the position they want most.

For additional details, including applications and guidelines, click here.

Interested in doing research this summer somewhere beyond the Orange Bubble? Below is Career Services' weekly compilation of summer research internship opportunities, as advertised through Handshake. Click here for additional Career Services tools/resources. Feel free to contact Career Services if you have any questions regarding the opportunities listed below or contact the Office of Undergraduate Research if you have other questions about doing research next summer.

Apply by 12/15/17. Program introduces students and recent graduates to the mission and operations of the DOE. Includes weekly stipend, some travel reimbursement to/from internship location; Direct exposure to and participation in projects and activities in DOE mission-relevant research areas; Identification of career goals and opportunities; development of professional networks with leading scientists and subject matter experts.

Apply by 01/13/18. Ten-week summer program with the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. The goal of the program is to improve opportunities for women and minority students in these fields, however all eligible candidates are encouraged to apply. Placements include national laboratories including Oak Ridge, Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos.

Apply by 01/15/18. With the Solar Energy Technologies Office at the U.S. DOE in Washington, D.C. Establish & implement new initiatives to make solar energy more affordable and reliable by designing national R&D strategies for advancing photovoltaic and concentrated solar power technology. Open to applicants holding bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degrees of all quantitative backgrounds.

Apply by 01/15/18. Develop and implement an independent scholarship agenda, with guidance from faculty mentors. Participate in activities and intellectual life of the department, and study ethical issues regarding conduct of research, clinical practice, genetics, and health policy. Fellowships are two years in length and stipends are based on applicant's previous experience and current US government schedule.

Apply by 02/09/18. Nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring and use of state-of-the-art core facilities. Students will present their research at the WV Summer Research Symposium. Includes stipend, free room and board, as well as assistance with travel.

The Sachs Scholarship is intended to broaden the global experience of its recipients by providing them with the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation. It was established by classmates and friends of Daniel Sachs, a distinguished Princeton student athlete, who attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sachs died of cancer at age 28 in 1967. The award is given to those who best exemplify Sachs’ character, intelligence and commitment, and whose scholarship is most likely to benefit the public.

Applications for the 2018 Stanford Research Conference (SRC) are open! You can apply at tinyurl.com/2018src.

Held every spring, SURA’s annual conference serves as a forum where undergraduates from all over the country can present their work, connect with other researchers, and hear from distinguished leaders in the research community. Students who share their findings accordingly will receive valuable feedback from the students, alumni, and faculty members in attendance—feedback that will help them develop their interests further or redirect their efforts altogether. Students currently not participating in research may find a project that inspires them to explore an idea of their own. In this fashion, the conference will facilitate the exchange of information that is necessary for intellectual advancement in today’s highly interconnected society.

Princeton seniors Rebecca Singer and Michael Shin, and alumni Shefali Jain and Joseph Tobin, have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For its third class, 142 scholars were selected from around the world from more than 4,000 applicants. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. Courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua, as well as visiting scholars, beginning in August. The program was founded by Blackstone investment firm co-founder Stephen Schwarzman.

Princeton senior Shruthi Rajasekar has been named a 2018 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom and the United States by offering intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders. The scholarship covers the cost of two years of graduate study in the UK at a university of the recipient’s choice.

Rajasekar, a resident of Plymouth, Minnesota, is one of 43 awardees for 2018. A music major studying composition and voice who is pursuing certificates in musical performance and cognitive science, Rajasekar will go to London to work toward a Master of Arts in the new Opera Making and Writing program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama during her first year abroad. During the second year, she will pursue a Master of Music in Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS). She plans to use the degrees to help her meet her long-term goal of writing an opera set in India.

Applications are being accepted for presenters at 2018 Princeton Research Day, the third annual campus-wide celebration of research and creative endeavors by the University’s undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other nonfaculty researchers.

The May 10, 2018, event provides an opportunity for students, early-career researchers and artists to share their work and to network with the community through short talks, poster presentations, performances, art exhibitions, demonstrations and digital presentations. Topics represent a broad range of research across the University.

The free, public event will be held in the Frist Campus Center and will conclude with an awards ceremony for outstanding contributions. Applications are due by Feb. 16.

This year’s event will build on the success of the past two Princeton Research Days, which each attracted more than 140 presenters and 500 attendees.

This fall, Princeton faculty teaching “The Interdisciplinary Design Studio” are introducing 12 students to architectural and urban design issues to help build their critical thinking and design skills. Central to the course was a fall-break trip to Brazil where students gained firsthand experience of the topics discussed on campus.

Mario Gandelsonas, professor of architecture and the Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture, developed the course in conjunction with architecture and urbanism faculty from the University of São Paulo.

Columbia Business School is seeking outstanding applications for the 2018 Summer Research Internship program. The highly selective program provides an intellectually stimulating environment and introduces the interns to the world of business research. Under the guidance of Columbia Business School’s leading faculty, interns will take an active role on a research project in one of the following areas: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, decision sciences, operations, and data analytics. This is a multi-disciplinary program and candidates from all backgrounds, including business, statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, the physical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences are encouraged to apply

The internship program is designed for undergraduate students at the end of their sophomore or junior year and first year Master Students. Exceptional students from other classes are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Several of the top interns have gone on to leading MS and PhD programs in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, and Data Sciences. Many been selected to join CBS full-time as a full-time Research Associates.

Lindsey Conlan ’18 is a senior concentrating in civil and environmental engineering who spent her summer as an intern at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University researching ways to recycle the gravel used in concrete. In the United States, the largest end use of gravel, known in the industry as natural aggregate, is for concrete production. Mining for aggregate has environmental impacts on a local and regional scale through mud and rock slides, changes in the water table, biodiversity, and carbon sink loss due to clearing vegetation. Conlan worked with Claire White, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

Conlan said her involvement with the program helped expand her experience with lab equipment and further piqued her interest in environmental issues and life cycle analysis of materials.

To read more about Lindsey Conlan's research and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, click here.

November is Internship month! That’s right. It’s time to start thinking about what you will be doing next summer. Explore the diverse offerings at PICS (Princeton Internships in Civic Service) this year. Internships pay a weekly stipend of $450/week. The PICS application is now live. But before you fill it out, you will want to investigate the almost 200 possibilities on the PICS website.

PICS helps students to explore potential careers in public service and creates opportunities for leadership, social engagement, and civic partnership through paid non-profit summer internships.

If you would like to read previous interns’ evaluations, learn more about PICS, or talk about which PICS organizations might be right for you, you can make a WASE appointment or email justineh@princeton.edu.

The Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. Founded in 1992, this institution has helped the University’s students and faculty conduct countless polls.

Although the Center’s main focus is graduate and undergraduate research, dozens of faculty members have taken advantage of its resources. Over the past quarter of a century, the Center has helped publish five books and 48 journal entries, which have been cited approximately 20,000 times.

Edward Freeland, the associate director of the Survey Research Center and a lecturer in the Wilson School, has noticed a considerable rise in the number of students taking advantage of original polling, as digital techniques have streamlined the process.

The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) invites applications for a ten-week paid summer research internship for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program will be held from May 20 to July 26, 2018 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MURAP seeks to prepare talented and motivated underrepresented students from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, or those with a proven commitment to diversity and to eradicating racial disparities in graduate school and the academy, for graduate study in fields in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program provides students with a rigorous research experience under the guidance of a UNC faculty mentor.

Each participant will receive:

Generous stipend

Campus housing

Meal allowance

Writing, Communication Skills and Professional Development workshops

GRE prep course (and all necessary materials)

Paid domestic travel expenses to and from Chapel Hill

The student application will be available online starting November 3, 2017 and the application deadline is February 9, 2018.

For the additional details, and to access the online application, click here.

A sensor that measures surface temperatures to improve indoor heating and cooling was one of several inventions on display last week at Princeton’s annual Celebrate Princeton Invention reception.

The evening honors faculty members and their teams who are creating technologies with the potential to benefit society. Held Thursday, Nov. 9, the event brought faculty, staff and student researchers together with members of the entrepreneurial community to highlight technologies with applications in medical testing, drug discovery, energy efficiency and other fields.

“We are here tonight to celebrate invention and discovery,” said Pablo Debenedetti, dean for research, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, and professor of chemical and biological engineering. “We honor risk and unpredictability, and we celebrate vision and persistence. We admire inspiration, but we also recognize the fact that knowledge pays off in unexpected ways, and that the journey from research to impact can follow many paths.”

Interested in research, collaboration, and innovation? Want to present your research at Harvard, receive feedback, and win prizes? Interested in meeting some of the most talented undergraduate students in the world?

Join 200 of the top undergraduate researchers from around the country and the globe for the 2018 National Collegiate Research Conference, held on on January 18-20, 2018.

NCRC is a large-scale, multidisciplinary forum held annually at Harvard University, where the most accomplished undergraduate students from across the United States and internationally convene each year to share their research in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The core vision behind the conference is to provide student researchers with the opportunity to hear from the world’s leading authorities in academia, policy, and industry, as well as to foster important exchanges and dialogue between students. Last year, after being selected through a competitive application process, over 200 participants from nearly 75 universities across America and abroad attended the conference.

Those interested in research from all academic disciplines (i.e. humanities, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences) are encouraged to apply. The application deadline for general applications is December 1st, 2017 (11:59PM EST).

Located in a small windowless room in Moffett Laboratory, Princeton’s vertical farm is used to identify the optimal conditions for growing food indoors. Plant physiologist Paul Gauthier, who has been at the University since 2012 and focuses his research on plant resilience to environmental stress, envisions the Princeton project as an open-source model for vertical farming. Free from having to turn a profit, he and the students involved in the project can experiment with various crops, techniques, technologies and nutrient solutions. Their focus is getting the best harvest with the least amount of resource consumption, then making those data publicly available.

As a Princeton University undergraduate, Alisa Tiwari '14 evaluated New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program for her senior thesis. With a background in domestic policy, African-American studies, and urban studies, and drawing on her coursework in politics, policy analysis, and statistics, she spent countless hours analyzing police data, reviewing the relevant legal issues, and considering the perspectives of both officers and community members to assess the efficacy, constitutionality, and broader societal impacts of the practice.

Being accepted into the 2014 cohort of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), based within the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, provided Tiwari the opportunity to gain real-world experience in the field of law enforcement reform. Established in 2006, the SINSI graduate program combines a Wilson School MPA degree with a fully funded, two-year professional-level practical work experience in the U.S. government. Tiwari is expected to complete her MPA in 2020

To read more about Tiwari's experiences in the SINSI program, click here.

Princeton Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Practical Research Experience Program (PREP), a 10-week program that runs over the course of the summer. Participating in a research project under the supervision of a TUM faculty member, PREP participants will build up and further refine their research skills, learn more about the specifics of the German higher education and research landscape, and become members of the diverse scientific community at Germany's top-ranked technical university.

TUM PREP applicants demonstrate outstanding academic achievements, can easily adapt to new environments and are driven by a general curiosity for science and research. During their stay and beyond, program participants serve as ambassadors for their home institutions and for TUM, respectively, and will contribute to the strengthening of international research networks.

The application period opens on November 1st, 2017, and closes on December 1st, 2017.

To read more about this exciting summer research opportunity, click here.

Drones in Africa, algal biofuel and the necessity of thorns. These topics and more constituted the varied research projects of 88 Princeton University undergraduates who presented the results of their summer-long internships during the Princeton Environmental Institute's 2017 Summer of Learning Symposium Oct. 6 at the Campus Club.

Students participating in PEI's internship program collaborated with Princeton faculty, researchers from other institutions, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations and community groups. Their projects focused on global environmental challenges in the areas of policy and resilience, biodiversity and conservation, alternative energy, climate and oceans, and water, soil and human health. Student interns based in different areas of the United States and in 12 countries tackled these issues from scientific, technical, policy and human dimensions through research, outreach, policy analysis and other practical experiences.

Seven Princeton University undergraduates and three graduate students presented their research at the 2017 Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS)(link is external) held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City Oct. 11-13. The conference was co-sponsored by Princeton and organized by the museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

For undergraduates, the SCCS is a prestigious opportunity to interact with and have their work reviewed by experienced scientists, said Dan Rubenstein, the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and director of the Program in Environmental Studies. The SCCS-New York is one of the sister conferences to the original SCCS begun in 2000 by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for undergraduate students majoring in disciplines related to oceanic and atmospheric science, research, or technology, and supportive of the purposes of NOAA’s programs and mission. Over 100 students are selected each year for participation in the Ernest F. Hollings (Hollings) and Educational Partnership Program (EPP) scholarship programs. These scholarships include support for two years of undergraduate study and summer internship opportunities at NOAAfacilities across the country.

To learn more about the Ernest F. Hollings scholarship program, click here.

Every year, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) administers its Undergraduate Fellows Program to support summer international research for the senior thesis. Fellowships are available to students in the second semester of junior year, from any discipline, who submits a compelling statement of senior thesis research interests that includes the conduct of summer research abroad.

Up to 10 juniors will be selected through a competitive application process. Those accepted into the program will work with a PIIRS faculty member during the spring semester of their junior year to develop a proposal for summer research towards the senior thesis (including a budget). Upon successful completion of the program—including attendance at required meetings and PIIRS approval of a grant proposal and budget—students are awarded funds for summer research. Funding ranges from $3,000–$6,000, to meet the entirety of a Fellow’s travel and other expenses related to summer research abroad.

Seeking to address a lack of diversity among faculty at U.S. colleges and universities nationwide, Princeton is launching new strategies to encourage more women and underrepresented minority students to pursue doctoral degrees.

At the end of September, the University was reviewing applications for a director of its new Presidential Scholars Program, which will bring female students and those from underrepresented minority groups to campus to prepare them to apply for and thrive in the nation’s top Ph.D. programs. The program will consist of two tracks:

The Pathways Program will bring 15 to 20 rising sophomores at nearby colleges to do research and coursework on Princeton’s campus each summer for four years. Students will also take part in professional-development workshops and other enrichment programs at Princeton throughout the academic year.

The Junior Society of Fellows will be open to non-Princeton students who have completed their undergraduate degrees but need additional courses or want to get research experience before beginning the graduate-school application process. These students will live on campus for two years; they will get internship experience, take GRE workshops, and do whatever else is necessary to prepare, said Dean of the College Jill Dolan.

It was not your typical subject matter for a work of musical theater. There was the requisite love story. There was mystery. But mainly, the plot centered on ... climate change.

The production, The Great Immensity, began in a 2009–10 atelier class offered in Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. It was an unusual collaboration, bringing together scientists and artists from the Lewis Center, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Civilians, a theater group that would go on to receive a grant of almost $700,000 from the National Science Foundation to show how theater can increase public engagement with scientific issues. Students and faculty came not just from Princeton’s arts programs, but from fields including bioethics, biology, engineering, environmental studies, and geosciences.

The Great Immensity is about a woman named Phyllis, whose husband, a nature documentary producer, disappears while on assignment on a tropical island. While searching for him, Phyllis discovers a plot to disrupt an upcoming climate summit in Paris. To tell that story, students in the atelier produced inventive work: Andrea Grody ’11 and KC (Wade) Jean-Pierre ’11 co-wrote a song about forest fires, based on their conversation with a North Carolina firefighter. Jackie Hedeman ’11 spent weeks immersed in online chat rooms to research the predatory snakehead fish. Inspired by her interview with an ecologist, Erin Sherman ’11 painted a watercolor that depicted how humans are affected by climate change.

“We were turning statistics into songs,” recalls Grody, who was the show’s music director and is making her debut as a music director on Broadway this fall.

Looking for something to do next summer? Have a cool idea for an internship or project? Want to immerse in a foreign culture? Come check out the Streicker International Fellows Fund info session.

The Streicker International Fellows Fund provides undergraduate students full funding to carry out substantive research or educational projects while immersed in a foreign culture. Streicker Fellows design their own projects or internships in conjunction with a hosting organization, in any academic or professional area, and in any geographic region outside of the United States. These projects or internships provide students with exceptional opportunities for intellectual and personal growth through a combination of work or research and immersion in a foreign culture. For summer 2018, up to twelve students will be granted awards. Awards typically range between $4,000 and $6,000.

For more information on the Streicker International Fellows fund, click here.

Open to everyone on campus, Research Computing Day is Princeton’s annual showcase of computational research by graduate students and postdocs from all disciplines, plus talks by PICSciE and OIT-Research Computing staff, poster sessions and open discussions. It’s a great way to get inspired by current projects and learn about the wide array of research computing support, services, and infrastructure available to the campus community.

The new center will tackle a deceptively simple question: What does modern physics reveal about life itself?

Most of the funding is earmarked to bring new people to campus, from undergraduates who will participate in a summer science program to postdoctoral fellows who will be free to work with any or all of the 14 faculty members that make up this new center. In addition, each of the Princeton and CUNY professors will have visiting status at the other university to facilitate collaboration among the six theorists and eight experimentalists involved.

If the advent of computers launched the Information Age, the ability to engineer tiny machines from molecules could define the coming decades.

In a testament to the rapid advance of nanotechnology, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists who built the world’s first synthetic molecular machines by interlocking single molecules into devices capable of mechanical motion.

Now, a discovery by Princeton University scientists, reported Aug. 2 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that humans don’t have the monopoly on building the world’s tiniest machines. The Princeton researchers found a lasso-shaped bacterial molecule capable of altering its configuration when exposed to heat, a shape-changing ability akin to that used to operate certain synthetic molecular machines. The lasso is a type of molecular chain known as a peptide.

The inaugural Ivy League Undergraduate Research Symposium (ILURS) will take place at the University of Pennsylvania from November 10th-12th, 2017. ILURS will attract approximately 200 of the brightest students who are conducting novel, groundbreaking research from across the eight Ivy League institutions to foster a community and dialogue among research-oriented, undergraduate scholars.

The mission of ILURS is two-fold. The primary goal is to promote all outstanding undergraduate research. The symposium spans across all academic disciplines from the natural sciences to the humanities to provide a unique venue for an interdisciplinary academic presentation of unprecedented breadth. Second, to forge a network among tomorrow’s most powerful leaders and scholars by offering professional networking opportunities, a post-graduate opportunities fair, a workshop series and crash courses taught by world renowned professors.

A member of Mathey College, Yang was an organizer at last year’s HackPrinceton, a weekend-long event in the spring that brings around 500 college students to campus to build hardware and software tools. This year, he will be a co-leader of HackPrinceton’s operations sub-team.

Alex Ford, Emma Michalak and Chanyoung Park — all members of the Class of 2017 — created these artistic projects as senior theses at Princeton, and the works represent just a sampling of ways that film studies is pursued at the University. Ford earned a certificate in visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Michalek earned a certificate in creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and Park majored in art and archaeology, focusing on visual arts and film.

In this video, the students describe their creative projects, their faculty mentors, the experiences on and beyond campus that shaped their work, and how they plan to pursue work in film now that they have graduated.

Working with Assistant Professor Minjie Chen, Princeton University undergraduate researchers are developing a system that would allow drones to automatically recharge their batteries at solar-powered charging stations. The stations are also designed to work for cellular phones. The work, aimed at extending drones’ operation time, is part of the Andlinger Center’s effort to find sustainable alternatives for resource-intensive tasks. The project is supported in part by the Peter B. Lewis Fund for Student Innovation in Energy and the Environment and the Dede T. Bartlett P03 Fund for Student Research in Energy and the Environment, both managed by the Andlinger Center.

The students working on the research project are Abdulghafar Al Tair, Alex Ju and Fida Newaj.

When Xavier Durham enrolled at the University of Texas-Austin, where he is now a senior, he had no intention of becoming an academic. This summer at Princeton University, he is exploring what such a career might look like in his key field of interest — sociology. Durham is attending the Princeton Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (PSURE), a program the Graduate School runs for college students interested in pursuing doctoral studies. Durham’s PSURE experience has confirmed that he is on the right path. “PSURE has reinforced my desire to be an academic,” he said. “I want to contribute to this body of knowledge.”

PSURE lasts just eight weeks, but the benefits to the seven participating students from around the country will remain many years into the future. The annual program, which runs this year through Aug. 5, is designed for undergraduates who have completed their sophomore or junior years and who express a serious interest in pursuing a Ph.D. and a career in college or university teaching and research. Undergraduates who are historically underrepresented in academia or those who attend public institutions are especially encouraged to apply.

GCURS is a forum for undergraduate researchers to present original research discoveries. The symposium format is 10-12 minutes, individual, oral PowerPoint presentation. An additional 2-3 minutes will be allotted for a question-and-answer period. Our students report that giving formal presentations in a multi-institution event is more interesting and valuable than either an in-house presentation series or regional conference poster session. GCURS also fosters intercollegiate interactions among students and faculty who share a passion for undergraduate research.

Meals will be provided on the day of the symposium. To close the symposium, an interdisciplinary networking reception with heavy appetizers and hors d'oeuvres will be held for all GCURS participants and visiting faculty.

A limited number of rooms at the Marriott Hotel are available for participants and visiting judges traveling to Houston.

Interested students should register online at gcurs.rice.edu and submit a one-page research abstract by Tuesday, October 10, 2017. We can accommodate 60 students in each section. In previous years we have been able to accommodate almost all registrants who wanted to speak, but if capacity becomes limiting we will select participants on the basis of submitted abstracts. Advisors can also register online at gcurs.rice.edu.

We look forward to meeting your students and learning about their discoveries!

Dogs’ ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, wolves. A new study published today in the journal Science Advances identifies genetic changes that are linked to dogs’ human-directed social behaviors and suggests there is a common underlying genetic basis for hyper-social behavior in both dogs and humans.

“It was the remarkable similarity between the behavioral presentation of Williams-Beuren syndrome and the friendliness of domesticated dogs that suggested to us that there may be similarities in the genetic architecture of the two phenotypes,” said Bridgett vonHoldt, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and the study’s lead co-author.VonHoldt had identified the canine analog of the WBSCR in her publication in Nature in 2010. But it was Emily Shuldiner, a 2016 Princeton alumna and the study’s other lead co-author, who, as part of her senior thesis, pinpointed the commonalities in the genetic architecture of Williams-Beuren syndrome and canine tameness.

When Arthur Edward Imperatore III showed up at his adviser’s office to discuss the first draft of his senior thesis, he was anxious. He knew that the classics department encouraged, alongside traditional studies of ancient texts in their original languages and contexts, creative interpretations of the works that could cast light on their enduring relevance to the present. In this vein Arthur had been inspired by Xenophon’s “Anabasis,” a first-person memoir written by a Greek gentleman-soldier who signed on as a mercenary for the young, charismatic and ambitious Persian prince Cyrus. In Arthur’s eyes, this old warhorse of the intermediate Greek curriculum still had a little life in him, in fact its dramatic story made it a perfect subject for a television mini-series of the sort that draw millions of viewers to cable channels.

When Arthur Edward Imperatore III showed up at his adviser’s office to discuss the first draft of his senior thesis, he was anxious.

He knew that the classics department encouraged, alongside traditional studies of ancient texts in their original languages and contexts, creative interpretations of the works that could cast light on their enduring relevance to the present. In this vein Arthur had been inspired by Xenophon’s “Anabasis,” a first-person memoir written by a Greek gentleman-soldier who signed on as a mercenary for the young, charismatic and ambitious Persian prince Cyrus. In Arthur’s eyes, this old warhorse of the intermediate Greek curriculum still had a little life in him, in fact its dramatic story made it a perfect subject for a television mini-series of the sort that draw millions of viewers to cable channels. Still, Arthur was not sure how this project would “play” with his adviser: Professor Michael Flower was a world-class authority on Xenophon and had recently published a study of “Xenophon’s Anabasis” to rave reviews.

For Flower, it was easy to sum up his response: “I told him,” he recalled, “that if I believed in reincarnation, I would have said that he must have been there in person to write such a remarkably vivid, and historically accurate, creative adaptation.”

Ale Hakala ’03 came to Princeton with an interest in environmental policy, though she hadn’t given much thought to more technical careers in the environmental field. Her courses, including a freshman seminar in geosciences and a policy-themed class with Greg van der Vink *83, helped to sharpen her focus, and a summer internship with civil and environmental engineering professor Catherine Peters gave her a closer view of research. But the course that would define her career path was geochemistry, taught by professor Satish Myneni.

Now on the PEI homepage: Thirty-one Princeton University seniors emerged from Guyot Hall on June 5 as the latest recipients of certificates in environmental studies from the Princeton Environmental Institute. The certificates and prizes for notable undergraduate research — including three inaugural book prizes — were presented during PEI Class Day.

It was after several hours of boating and diving along the coast of Bermuda in the summer of 2015 that then-sophomore Zoe Sims realized that she, for the first time, was in charge.

Sims, who graduates from Princeton University June 6, was studying the effects of groundwater pollution on the health of Bermuda's coral reefs, a topic that would become the focus of her senior thesis research. But her initial search for the points where freshwater from the island enters the sea had been fruitless. Finally, one of the graduate students helping Sims asked what she wanted to do next. Then they waited for her to answer.

"It was my decision — nobody was going to tell me we were done, or say, 'good job, go home,'" Sims recalled. "I was receiving a lot of help and support, especially from my co-adviser Anne [Cohen of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution], who guided me closely throughout the project. But I also had more autonomy and responsibility than I'd ever had on a project before. The ultimate decision of what I wanted out of my research and how ambitious I wanted to be, that was on me.

Builder José Mosquera’s masterwork languishes in a wooded area outside Havana, Cuba, going slowly to ruin and being colonized by trees and vines. But when Princeton University senior Isabella Douglas and a team of students met him on the grounds of Cuba’s National School of Ballet last November, Mosquera gave them a rare gift.

Builder José Mosquera’s masterwork languishes in a wooded area outside Havana, Cuba, going slowly to ruin and being colonized by trees and vines. But when Princeton University senior Isabella Douglas and a team of students met him on the grounds of Cuba’s National School of Ballet last November, Mosquera gave them a rare gift.

Princeton University senior Claire Ashmead has been awarded a Witherspoon Scholarship to study writing at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Established in 2015, the scholarship honors the historic ties between Princeton and Edinburgh, highlighting the role of John Witherspoon at both institutions, and is awarded annually to a Princeton senior. Ashmead is expected to begin her studies at Edinburgh in September.

Princeton University seniors and graduate students exhibited the topical diversity of environmental-studies research during the Princeton Environmental Institute's sixth annual Discovery Day on May 10 in the Frick Chemistry Lab Atrium. Sixty-six seniors and six graduate students representing 19 academic departments took part in the culminating event for students in the Program in Environmental Studies and students who received field-research support from PEI.

From Aristotle explained through the lens of a soccer match to a technique for measuring a human's heart rate by using a webcam, the second annual Princeton Research Day served up a day full of intriguing findings from across the University.

The Thursday, May 11, event on campus featured more than 140 presentations by undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other campus researchers from engineering, social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and the arts. Even a few high school students who work with campus researchers participated.

President Christopher L. Eisgruber, speaking at the day-ending awards presentation, said Princeton Research Day highlights a key aspect of the University's mission.

"Research is obviously one of the things that distinguishes us in our mission," Eisgruber said. "We aspire to contribute to the world through the research we do, the discoveries we make and the ideas we're able to get out to the world. But it's also an indispensable element of the teaching we do here."

Where can you find a molecular biology major sharing research next to a French and Italian concentrator, both presenting posters in the same room as a computer scientist?

The event, taking place on Thursday, May 11, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Frist Campus Center, will showcase research conducted by over 200 undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other non-faculty researchers, spanning fields from the natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering to the arts and humanities.

To meet the requirements of his major in English and certificates in creative writing, theater and Latino studies, Princeton senior Edwin Rosales had to write not one but two senior theses. The first in his family to go to college, he drew on his own experience of emigrating to the U.S. from Guatemala as a child and extensive research to write a collection of short stories and a play. Rosales said the arts at Princeton empowered him and built his confidence as a writer.

To meet the requirements of his major in English and certificates in creative writing, theater and Latino studies, Princeton senior Edwin Rosales had to write not one but two senior theses. The first in his family to go to college, he drew on his own experience of emigrating to the U.S. from Guatemala as a child and extensive research to write a collection of short stories and a play. Rosales said the arts at Princeton empowered him and built his confidence as a writer.

Twelve undergraduate students from across the disciplines have been selected as Streicker Fellows. They will pursue internships and conduct research at a variety of international locations over the summer.

Jacob Dlamini, an assistant professor of history, is teaching a class this semester on “White Hunters, Black Poachers: Africa and the Science of Conservation.” The class uses ecological history to discuss the effectiveness and moral considerations of conservation.

The inaugural edition of the “Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal” was distributed this week to the University community in residences and academic departments. Cofounded by editors-in-chief Yash Patel ’18 and Daniel Liu ’18, the journal aims to provide a wide audience for undergraduate independent work.

“A lot of the amazing research that’s being done by undergraduates isn’t seen by most students,” Patel said. “Really the drive for us in founding [‘PURJ’] is that we wanted research to be appreciated by the entire Princeton community, not only undergraduates reading other undergraduates’ research, but also sharing across departments, by graduate students and administrators as well.”

Members of the Class of 2017 will be the first students to use Thesis Central, a newly created online system that allows seniors to upload their theses directly into the University’s digital archives. The site, which is the result of a collaborative effort between the University Archives, the Office of Information Technology, and the Office of the Dean of the College, was launched on Monday, March 27.

“Designed to assist students and administrators with the archival process, the site will ensure a more complete, accurate, and streamlined collection of senior theses from across campus,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan wrote in an email.

The new system aims to standardize the thesis submission process, a departure from previous years in which digital collection methods varied across departments.

Senior Miranda Rosen, a history major, has been awarded the Truman Scholarship for public service. The award provides funding toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in professional development programs to prepare for careers in public service. Rosen is interested in women’s rights.

The title of the Princeton senior thesis paper was 28 words. The final product ended up being close to 80 pages. Royals pitcher Chris Young can still recount the topic of his study in quite vivid detail: “The Impact of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball on Racial Stereotypes in America: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Stories about Race in The New York Times.”

Princeton senior Melissa Parnagian, who is concentrating in the Woodrow Wilson School, has received a Sheila C. Johnson Fellowship for graduate study at the Harvard Kennedy School. The fellowship will allow her to develop leadership skills focused on reducing disparities in underserved communities in the United States.

Princeton University seniors Ava Hoffman, Lara Norgaard, Achille Tenkiang and PCUR Humanities Correspondent, Vidushi Sharma and have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation. Read more about this story here.

Vindushi received funds to conduct her archival research in Jerusalem through the Office of the Dean of the College senior thesis research funding program with the generosity of the Class of "55 Fund.

Camden Olson didn't have a pet dog growing up, but when she was 7 years old, she realized her passion for training service dogs. The sophomore ecology and evolutionary biology major wants to dedicate her career to helping those with disabilities by raising and training service dogs.

"My career path is that I want to work with service dogs, to be able to communicate with an animal and to teach that animal to literally save someone's life on a regular basis," said Olson, who is also receiving a certificate in cognitive science. "When I work with a dog, I just feel like I have a purpose."

Senior Ayelet Wenger has been awarded the Keasbey Scholarship, which provides the opportunity to study at selected British universities.

Wenger, of Columbus, Ohio, is a classics major who is also pursuing certificates in Judaic studies and Hellenic studies. She will pursue an M.Phil. in Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World at the University of Oxford.

At Princeton, she received the Program in Creative Writing's award for outstanding work by a sophomore. Since fall 2015, she has been a member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, a group of juniors and seniors who are committed to the study of humanistic inquiry. She received a Rothberg International School Merit Scholarship in fall 2015.

Preston Cosset Kemeny, Class of 2015 and a geosciences major, has received the prestigious Hertz Fellowship of more than $250,000 to pursue graduate study. Kemeny is a first-year graduate student at Caltech, where he is studying geochemistry. His Princeton career included many international adventures in the field.

It's that time of year again, when seniors withdraw into the depths of libraries and their dorm rooms to complete perhaps the most exhaustive and nuanced endeavor that they will undertake during their Princeton careers: the senior thesis. For months, these students have been conducting research, building, performing, interviewing, and writing these capstone projects that are often mysteries to underclassmen. To get an idea of what these students have been spending hours and hours on, the Street interviewed three seniors, Dylan Blau Edelstein ’17, former Street editor Harrison Blackman ’17, and Daniel Teehan ’17. All of the seniors are AB students; Edelstein is concentrating in Spanish & Portuguese, Blackman in History, and Teehan in Comparative Literature.

The Daily Princetonian: If you could pitch your thesis, how would you describe it?

Dylan Blau Edelstein: My thesis is about the legacy of Nise da Silveira, a pioneering art therapist and psychiatrist in Brazil during the 1940’s. At a time when people were turning to lobotomy and electroshock therapy, she led painting workshops at a mental hospital for her patients, whom she referred to as “clients.” Many of them hadn’t spoken in years, and were deemed lost causes by the institution. But in these workshops, the clients not only gained access to language through images, but also went on to become some of the most famous painters in Brazil at that time.

Silveira died in 1999, so for my research last summer I interviewed people who knew her, and visited sites of various projects she started. Through that process, I am envisioning my thesis as a sort of collective memory. I wanted to look at what we can learn from her, what she means for a country like Brazil that was a pioneer in the anti-asylum movement, and what it means to humanize people who have been locked up for years in a hospital. Silveira published a number of books that were never translated into English, so I also saw this as an opportunity to create some English scholarship about her.

The psychology major from Aleppo, Syria, and North Carolina attributes his growth on campus to a value Princeton has taught him: to be in the service of humanity. Marayati plans to take this value into the future as he hopes to become a neurosurgeon.

As part of Princeton University's ongoing efforts to increase diversity and inclusion, three academic departments have created pilot programs that build bridges between undergraduate coursework and doctoral programs for promising young scholars from underrepresented backgrounds.

Heather Gerken ’91 has been selected as the next dean of Yale Law School, Yale University President Peter Salovey announced Feb. 21. Gerken will be the first woman to hold this position.

Gerken is a renowned professor who has taught at both Harvard and Yale, in addition to clerking for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court and practicing law herself. She is also one of the country’s most prominent experts in the fields of constitutional and election law. Her academic work focuses on federalism and diversity.

Seniors Solveig Gold and Marisa Salazar have been named co-winners of the University's 2017 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership. Previous recipients include the late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. Goheen, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

They will be recognized at a luncheon during Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 25.

Seniors Penina Krieger, Natasha Turkmani and Charlotte Williams, as well as Class of 2013 graduate Erica Cao, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Cambridge to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

On behalf of the Stanford Undergraduate Research Association (SURA), we encourage you to apply to the 2017 Stanford Research Conference (SRC 2017)! Held from April 14 through April 16 on the campus of Stanford University, SRC 2017 is our third annual national undergraduate research conference. At the conference, you'll interact with esteemed Stanford faculty members in workshops, receive feedback in a poster symposium, learn about cutting-edge research, and explore the Bay Area. Past speakers have included Nobel laureates, domain experts, and renowned faculty.

We encourage students involved in academic research in all disciplines to apply! Past participants have presented research completed through summer research programs, senior thesis projects, and other work guided by faculty at their home institutions.

Ten students at Princeton have been selected to the 2017 cohort of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI)! Established in 2006, SINSI is designed to encourage, support and prepare the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the U.S. federal government, in both international and domestic agencies.

Established in 2006, SINSI is designed to encourage, support and prepare the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the U.S. federal government, in both international and domestic agencies. Through rigorous academic training integrated with work experience, the goal of the highly competitive scholarship program is to provide students with the language and workplace skills needed to succeed in the public policy arena.

A regional APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics was held on campus and at PPPL the weekend of Jan. 13-15, bringing together more than 200 undergraduate women interested in physics and careers in the field. Urry, a professor of astrophysics at Yale whose research focuses on active galaxies that host supermassive black holes in their centers, was one of the plenary speakers at the conference, which focused on giving young women the tools to stay in physics and other STEM fields. More than 200 women attended the event.

In the "The Science of Mythbusters," Professor Joshua Shaevitz and 15 students are examining how scientific research is done, from identifying real-world problems and getting funding to creating experiments and analyzing evidence. Influenced by the popular cable TV show, this freshman seminar focuses on the ways in which scientists approach real-world problems using the scientific method. Working within the framework of skeptical inquiry, the 15 students in the class engage in discussion and analysis on the practices of science, including how experiments are designed, the continuous cycle of hypothesis and testing, and the imaginative solutions that are developed for practical situations.

Each spring, the Thomas Jefferson University Chapter of Sigma Xi organizes a Student Research Day. The main focus of this day is poster presentations by undergraduate, graduate and medical students. The poster session offers students the opportunity to interact with colleagues and faculty, to win prizes, to catch up on current scientific discoveries, to learn about new areas of research, and to practice networking and scientific presentation skills.

This year the TJU Student Research Day will be held on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017.

Poster presentations will be judged by TJU scientists and cash prizes will be awarded for the best poster in each research category, including the undergraduate student category.

Undergraduate students and advisers will also have the opportunity to attend an information session with the Jefferson College of Biomedical Sciences Admissions to discuss learn more about graduate education at Jefferson.

The poster session will be followed by the annual William Potter Lecture at 4:00 pm. We are excited to announce that the 2017 Potter Lecture will be given by Arthur Lander, MD, PhD, Donald Bren Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Center for Complex Biological Systems, an NIGMS National Center for Systems Biology. Students and their advisers are cordially invited to the reception at the conclusion of the awards ceremony.

Key dates:

Abstract submission OPENS - Friday, January 13th, 2017

Abstract submission DEADLINE - Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

Acceptance notification - Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Research Day - Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

Please note: we can accommodate up to 130 posters, so submit early while space is available!

Princeton seniors Becca Keener and Shannon Osaka have received Sachs Scholarships, one of the highest awards given to undergraduates at the University. The scholarship is intended to enlarge each recipient’s experience of the world by providing the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation. Keener will pursue a master’s degree focusing on global Europe: culture and conflict at the London School of Economics. Osaka will study for a master’s in nature, society and environmental governance at Worcester College, Oxford.

For the first time this year, a Sachs Scholarship is being given for one year of study at Princeton. The award goes to Holly Muir, who graduated from Oxford in June. She will come to Princeton as a visiting student in the Graduate School, and will pursue study in the English department and the creative writing program.

Princeton senior Joani Etskovitz has been named a 2017 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living at a British university of the recipient's choice for up to two years. Marshall Scholarships help build strong ties with the United states by giving young Americans of high ability and leadership potential the opportunity to study at universities in the United Kingdom. In 2017, 40 students will join the program, an increase from the 32 places originally planned for the year.

Etskovitz, who is from Wayne, Pennsylvania, is an English major who is pursuing certificates in humanistic studies and European cultural studies.

Princeton University senior Ellie Sell has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study gender, sexuality and culture at University College Dublin. Twelve Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to students nationwide by the nonprofit U.S.-Ireland Alliance based in Washington, D.C.

A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Sell is a chemistry major who plans to pursue a medical degree. Sell hopes to use the time in Ireland to build an academic foundation in gender studies and queer theory that will be valuable as a physician and researcher.

"These fields have been and will continue to be invaluably important to the continued evolution of medicine in the United States," Sell said. "I hope to investigate the ways in which gender as a social construction shapes forces that influence not only patient outcomes but also how patients move through the health-care system. Having a background in gender, sexuality and culture will allow me to bring gender studies and queer theory into my medical career and future academic research."

Princeton seniors Jacob Cannon, Preston Lim, Samuel Maron, Emery Real Bird, Molly Reiner and Kevin Wong have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For its second class, 129 scholars were selected from around the world. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. The courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua as well as visiting scholars and will start in August. Cultural immersion and travel also are key elements of the scholarship. Blackstone investment firm co-founder Stephen Schwarzman founded the scholarship program, and the scholars will be housed on the Schwarzman College on the Tsinghua campus.

Applications are being accepted for presenters at the 2017 Princeton Research Day, the second annual campus-wide celebration of research and creative endeavors by the University's undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other nonfaculty researchers.

The May 11, 2017, event offers an opportunity for student and early career researchers and artists to share their work with the community through talks, posters, performances, art exhibitions, demonstrations and digital presentations. Topics will represent the range of research across the University, including the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, the arts and humanities.

The event, to be held in Frist Campus Center, will be free and open to the public and will conclude with an awards ceremony for outstanding contributions.

The 2017 edition of Princeton Research Day will feature a full day of events, building on the success of the inaugural Princeton Research Day in May 2016 that drew more than 130 presenters and hundreds of audience members, filling Frist with the sights and sounds of researchers and artists sharing their work.

One of the cornerstones of Princeton's focus on international research and learning has been its strategic partnerships with universities in Germany, Japan and Brazil. The partnerships with Humboldt University, University of Tokyo and University of São Paulo were established four years ago as part of Princeton's ongoing internationalization efforts.

During this time, 48 collaborative academic projects have already received support through Princeton's respective partnerships with the three universities. The University continues to support new projects with these partners abroad, with the most recent calls for proposals from faculty issued this week. The partnerships are among Princeton's many international programs and connections with universities around the world that include study abroad programs, faculty fellowships, research collaborations and global scholars networks.

The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University awards seed funding to catalyze and support projects proposed by University faculty, researchers, and students that are aimed at solving a broad range of energy and environmental problems. These projects foster innovative research, teaching, and mentorship in energy and the environment.

Three new research projects were supported in 2015-2016, bringing the total number of projects supported since the inception of this initiative in 2011 to 35 and a total of $2.8 million invested.

From improving the performance of solar cells to genetically engineering yeast to make biofuels, eight undergraduates at Princeton University engaged in exciting energy- and environment-related research projects this past summer through the University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The students, who worked for eight weeks under the guidance of Andlinger Center faculty members, received funding for their projects through the Peter B. Lewis Fund for Student Innovation in Energy and the Environment and the Dede T. Bartlett P03 Fund for Student Research in Energy and the Environment.

DENNISSE CALLE FOUND THE TOPIC for her senior thesis along a Havana street in the back of a stall that sells pirated movies and music.

Cubans pay the equivalent of a few dollars, insert a flash drive into the computer at the back of the stall, and get access to El Paquete — a weekly, one-terabyte compilation of popular TV shows, movies, music, computer and phone apps, and advertisements that serves as an offline Netflix, YouTube, Craigslist and more in a country where internet access is slow and expensive. Calle, a sociology major at Princeton, spent two weeks in January doing research in Cuba and interviewed 50 users and distributors of El Paquete — which means “The Package” — to learn about the service and the way it fits into the lives of everyday Cubans.

“I focus on how El Paquete is transforming how people view themselves as consumers,” Calle said. “This is one of the first forms of consumer culture that is being normalized in Cuba, in part because it’s cheap and easy to pass around.”

IN THE SUMMER OF 2015, Princeton students Joseph Scherrer and Adam Bowman experienced something few undergraduates can claim: they built, from scratch, a laser system capable of coaxing lithium atoms into a rare, highly excited state of matter to reveal their quantum nature.

When they joined Assistant Professor of Physics Waseem Bakr’s lab in the spring of 2014, Scherrer and Bowman had little experience in optics or quantum physics. Their task was to convince lithium atoms to enter a state of matter known as the Rydberg state. In this state, each atom has a very high-energy electron located far from the atom’s nucleus. The separation of the electron’s negative charge from the nucleus’ positive charge creates a dipole, like a magnet’s north and south poles.

To give the electrons the right amount of energy to create the Rydberg state, Scherrer and Bowman hit the atoms with two carefully tuned lasers, first blue and then red. To prove that the lithium atoms had indeed entered the Rydberg state, the two researchers needed a way to detect them. They trawled the scientific literature for a sensitive enough detection method, and eventually implemented a technique called electromagnetically induced transparency. With this technique, the Rydberg atoms interfere with the absorbance of certain wavelengths of light, so if the gas is transparent in those wavelengths, the Rydberg atoms are present.

On behalf of the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) I would like to extend an invitation to undergraduate students at Princeton University to attend the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University on January 19-21, 2017. NCRC is a large-scale, multidisciplinary forum held annually at Harvard University, where the most accomplished undergraduate students from across the United States and internationally convene each year to share their research in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The core vision behind our conference is to provide student researchers with the opportunity to hear from the world’s leading authorities in academia, policy, and industry, as well as to foster important exchanges and dialogue between students. Last year, after being selected through a competitive application process, over 200 participants from nearly 75 universities across America and abroad attended our conference. Through NCRC, we hope to expand the perspective of undergraduate researchers through offering exposure to diverse fields and to facilitate the discourse on collaboration, leadership, and social impact in research that we believe will be invaluable in future pursuits.

In the last five years, we have been honored to host speakers including Marcia K. McNutt (President of the National Academy of Sciences and former Editor-in-Chief of Science), Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), Steven Pinker (psychologist and popular science author), Robert S. Langer (chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and most cited engineer in history), and Stephen Wolfram (founder and CEO of Wolfram Research), as well as many other notable individuals in academia, policy, and industry. We are anticipating expanding the reach of NCRC to even greater heights for our upcoming 2017 conference.

I would appreciate if you could share this invitation (included below) with students who you believe will be interested in attending. The application deadline for general applications is November 28th, 2016 (11:59PM EST). You can find the application and further information our website http://ncrc.hcura.org/.

For this episode of PAW Tracks, we spoke with Allison Slater Tate, Class of 1996, who says that Princeton had an immediate grip on her imagination.

Allison Slater Tate ’96’s career has ranged from TV production to blogging about parenting, and her college experience has been useful at every turn. “In some ways, I’ve been way out of the Princeton track,” she says, “and in other ways, Princeton’s never left.”

Joanna Slusky ‘01, an assistant professor at the University of Kansas, has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as one of five aspiring inventors to comprise the inaugural cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows. Her proposed invention is a protein that will re-sensitize bacteria to common antibiotics, thereby overcoming drug-resistant superbugs. The invention could have a global impact on antibiotic resistance and re-establish the efficacy of antibiotics.

She graduated magne cum laude from Princeton with a A. B. in chemistry and conducted undergraduate research in the laboratory of Robert J. Cava.

For Princeton University faculty and students, the Mpala Research Centre, a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional field laboratory that sits on a 50,000-acre reserve and ranch in central Kenya, provides an expansive natural terrain ideal for large-scale field experiments in ecology, biology, geology and other fields. Princeton recently expanded its long involvement with Mpala by assuming the role of managing partner. Mpala offers students and scientists an international experience in a place of great natural beauty and diversity.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of Princeton University's Office of Sustainability, the hub that supports, monitors and connects initiatives across campus focused on cultivating positive global and local impacts in the environment. The office's celebration for the University community is tomorrow afternoon.

A call for proposals is open to fund creative research projects, made possible by the Overdeck Family Foundation, which has donated $1 million to create the Overdeck Education Research Innovation Fund. This fund will be awarded over two years for innovative faculty and student research projects.

The funds will be distributed in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years with two levels of grant support available: Grants of $5,000 or less, to be considered on a rolling basis; and grants between $5,000 and $200,000 to be considered annually.

Now on the homepage: In this Office of Communications team collaboration, Stacy Wolf, director of Princeton’s Program in Music Theater, and students reveal the many facets of the new program, including collaboration, close access to faculty and guest artists, and the process of creating new work — from musicals to opera to the avant-garde.

This summer, six Princeton undergraduates embarked on Princeton's first journalism course abroad, in which students honed their on-the-ground reporting skills as they experienced firsthand the refugee crisis in Athens and on the island of Lesbos, Greece in the Ferris McGraw Seminar in Journalism "Reporting on the Front Lines of History — in Greece." This feature is Part 2 of a two-part series, "A Tale of Two Countries," focusing on new study abroad courses Princeton offered this summer. Part 1 introduces Princeton's first PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) Global Seminar in France, in which students immersed themselves in the rich tradition of French theater from the heart of Paris to the countryside of Avignon.

For the past two years, the student organization Princeton Racing Electric has been designing and building an all-electric, high-performance vehicle to compete in the international Formula Hybrid competition. Watch their journey to qualify for the event in New Hampshire.

When Ben Sorkin put on his racing suit and helmet, he knew the moment he waited over two years for had finally come. His teammates helped strap him into the driver's seat. For the first time, he would be energizing their electric car for its very first run around a race track.

Princeton University's office of Sustainability would like to share an orientation video created for the first year students and all returning students about sustainability at Princeton. The video was made by Jared Flesher, award-winning director of Sourlands.

The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to cultivate the desire in all of us to lead meaningful lives in service of global human and environmental well-being.

Determined to get summer research experience, Bufan Zhang, a rising senior at Vassar College, cold emailed chemistry faculty outside of her institution asking about open positions. One of the few replies came from Brad Carrow, an assistant professor of chemistry at Princeton University.

“The goal is to give the students an opportunity they wouldn’t have elsewhere,” said Susan VanderKam, a lecturer in the chemistry department and manager of diversity initiatives, who helms SURP-DC. The summer program is excellent due to the strength of the undergraduate research program that already exists for Princeton students, she said.

﻿University of Delhi undergraduate Unnati Akhouri loves physics. When she is not studying the mysteries of the particle world, she is drawing playful cartoons about the field (which she calls "phymics") featuring a superhero electron or photon in love.

So the opportunity to spend the summer working with faculty at Princeton University's Department of Physics was truly her dream come true.

"When I started researching summer internships in the United States I never thought I would end up at Princeton. Some of the top physicists have been here," said Akhouri, who recently returned to India for her final year at university.

Akhouri is one of 14 international undergraduates who spent this summer at Princeton as part of the International Student Internship Program (ISIP). The pilot program allows promising young scholars from institutions abroad to work with Princeton faculty and to experience the University's unique academic and research environment.

Singer Katie Welsh performed an evening of song, Women in the World of Sondheim,at Feinstein’s 54 Below in New York City on June 10, 2016, accompanied by pianist Emily Whitaker. She explored a dozen female characters from Sondheim’s musicals and how they informed one another when they were put “side by side” with one another and with some of the heroines from Golden Age musicals. Welsh’s event was an adaptation of a project originally directed by Suzanne Agins; it was previously developed at Princeton when Welsh was a student there.

Princeton University is hosting more than 50 college students this summer who are participating in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Funded by the National Science Foundation and supplemented by Princeton, the program engages a diverse set of science students from around the nation in original scientific research.

Inspired by the desire to help broaden boundaries for vision-impaired people, three Princeton University students created an armband device that allows a wearer without the ability to see to interpret color.

The project emerged from a new class offered for the first time this spring, "Transformations in Engineering and the Arts," and lived up to the name of the course. In addition to transforming the sensation of color from a visual to a tactile experience, the students transformed an idea born on a whiteboard into a product interweaving engineering concepts and artistic practices.

The Independent College Fund of New Jersey is seeking student applications to participate in the ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium in March of 2017. Student participants will have new learning opportunities, develop presentation & communications skills, build peer networks, and engage with industry professionals.

Application Process and Awards

ICFNJ will provide up to 28 awards (a maximum of $1,000 per project) according to the Participant Guidelines. Participation in the Undergraduate Research Symposium is based on a competitive application process offered only to New Jersey independent college students as outlined in the eligibility criteria.

University Services has launched a Summer at Princeton University website: www.princeton.edu/summer. The site hosts information on various campus support services, summer hours, and events on and around campus that may be useful for graduate and undergraduate students who are staying at Princeton this summer.

Students of all ages from across the country and world will be engaged in a summer of learning on the Princeton University campus, taking part in programs on subjects ranging from chemistry and combustion energy to music and entrepreneurship.

Princeton students, faculty and staff, as well as leaders from other organizations, will oversee programs designed to help elementary, secondary, college and graduate students build their academic and leadership skills. The programs are part of a busy summer on campus. Princeton's Department of Athletics sponsors dozens of sports camps; Campus Recreation runs an annual summer day camp; and Conference and Events Services works with numerous outside organizations that use campus facilities for conferences and other activities.

The following list offers a look at some of the educational and leadership programs taking place this summer. Deadlines for registering for this year's programs have passed, but anyone interested in participating in future programs should consult the contacts listed below. Some programs are restricted to participants of certain ages, schools or other criteria. Reporters interested in covering any of the programs should contact Min Pullan in the Office of Communications at mpullan@princeton.edu or 609-258-9045.

Lu Lu, who is from Chongqing, China, wanted to work on sustainable construction with a focus on design and digital modeling. Russell Archer, who is from East Orange, New Jersey, wanted to physically test building materials. Adriaenssens served as the adviser for both students, who graduated in May.

With the help of a graduate student in Adriaenssens' lab, the seniors identified a partner, DAGMA (Departamento Administrativo de Gestión del Medio Ambiente, or the Administrative Department of Environmental Management), in Cali, Colombia. The students and the group collaborated on a project involving bamboo architecture and construction — the entrance canopy to a park to be used by schoolchildren.

The swimming pool at Chitengo Camp is a bright blue circle shaded by trees. It is a tranquil place to relax after a dusty game drive in Gorongosa National Park, but not long ago this inviting oasis was used by rebel forces as a prison.The pool, now ringed with deck chairs, instead of armed guards, is just one small sign of how far Mozambique’s prized park has come since a 15-year civil war broke out in 1977 and the country descended into chaos. “The park was cleaned out,” explained Kathryn Grabowski ’16, a civil and environmental engineering student at Princeton University. “Armed forces swept through the park killing anything they could eat or sell.”

When Connor Stonesifer ’16 first arrived in Panama in the summer of 2015, his Spanish consisted of saying “I want” and having to point at things. When he asked the woman who ran the hostel where he was staying to turn up the air conditioning, he received a cup of pudding instead.

When Connor Stonesifer ’16 first arrived in Panama in the summer of 2015, his Spanish consisted of saying “I want” and having to point at things. When he asked the woman who ran the hostel where he was staying to turn up the air conditioning, he received a cup of pudding instead.

“It was not exactly an auspicious start to my first foray into independent field research,” said Stonesifer, an ecology and evolutionary biology major at Princeton University, who had traveled to Panama to study nutrient acquisition strategies among different tree species in recovering tropical rainforests as part of his senior thesis.

Yet, having been told by his faculty adviser Lars Hedin, chair of the ecology and evolutionary biology department, that the senior thesis project is as much about creatively working through problems as any particular research question, Stonesifer ate his pudding and decided that his foreign language skills were an obstacle and not a barrier and focused his attention on what had brought him to Panama in the first place – trees. Specifically, why trees that spend enormous amounts of energy fixing nitrogen, actually grow faster than non-fixing trees that get nitrogen for free.

For six weeks in the summer of 2015, Stonesifer’s research laboratory was a forest: the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s (STRI) Agua Salud Project site near El Giral, Panama. The area is a rainforest recovery study site consisting of cleared and degraded land in various stages of recovery in the Panama Canal watershed.

Read the full story in the News Archive of the Princeton Environmental Institute.

The senior thesis is helping Alec Lowman ’16 find a sense of himself in the world as an artist, says Professor Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and director of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing—and it inspires her.

Professor Smith is thesis advisor to Alec, who is writing a book-length collection of poems about the idea of place. In the process, they learn from one another. She says, “You’re always stretching to get just past what is known so you can encounter something that feels like surprise.”

Princeton University senior Sonya Hayden has been awarded a Witherspoon Scholarship to study theater at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Established last spring, the scholarship honors the historic ties between Princeton and Edinburgh, highlighting the role of John Witherspoon at both institutions, and is awarded annually to a Princeton senior. Hayden is expected to begin her studies at Edinburgh in September.

A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Hayden is a music major who is also earning a certificate in theater. She said she will pursue her interest in playwriting at Edinburgh.

"[T]he opportunity to immerse myself in an international theater scene and learn about the similarities and differences between U.K. and U.S. theater is exciting," Hayden wrote in her application. "I … am confident that the structure of the Edinburgh program will allow me to find my artistic voice and discover engaging ways to tell the stories about which I am passionate."

After Edinburgh, Hayden plans to continue writing plays and musicals, composing music, and working in theater professionally.

What is Campus as Lab?

Princeton is a living laboratory filled with opportunities to study sustainability issues right here on campus through any discipline. By serving as a demonstration of sustainability problem solving, the University strives to ensure that all students can meaningfully employ the principles of sustainability in any future endeavor. For more information about the program, contact our Campus as Lab Fellow, Christian Rivera '14 and visit our website.

Digging deep into ancient texts — the book kind — at a clip of 250+ pages a week your very first semester in college may sound daunting. But students in Princeton's yearlong humanities sequence for freshmen find that the unique structure of this supercourse creates a powerful bridge between past and present, illuminating pathways to help them become curious thinkers for life.

"The humanities sequence is a yearlong introduction to the toolkit that you need to understand the building blocks of Western European tradition," said Denis Feeney, the Giger Professor of Latin, professor of classics and chair of the Council of the Humanities. "We begin with Homer in the first semester, and we end with Dante at the end of the first semester, and then we pick up at the beginning of the second semester with Petrarch and carry through to Virginia Woolf."

Students may enroll in one or both semesters of the humanities sequence, called the HUM sequence for short. Each semester — which counts as two courses — includes three 50-minute lectures and two 80-minute precepts a week. Students can also take additional courses to earn a certificate in humanistic studies. The Council of the Humanities also offers a yearlong, team-taught East Asian Humanities Sequence — an introduction to the literature, art, religion and philosophy of China, Japan and Korea from antiquity to the contemporary, including film and media.

The course is team-taught by professors from a variety of academic disciplines — ranging across literature, history, religion, music, philosophy, archaeology and art history — who each attend the lectures and lead their own precepts. This enables freshmen to get to know distinguished senior faculty beginning their very first semester at Princeton.

The Princeton Environmental Institute hosted its 5th Annual Discovery Day on Thursday, May 4th. Discovery Day is a multidisciplinary poster session celebrating undergraduate senior thesis research on environmental issues. Sixty-five (65) students from 16 academic departments showcased their work, which was mentored by 47 faculty advisers.

Discovery Day is a culminating event for students participating in the Program in Environmental Studies and for students receiving research support from PEI. It is an opportunity for students to display and discuss their senior thesis research methodologies and results, to showcase environmental studies projects, to exchange perspectives, and to propose solutions to the world's most pressing environmental challenges. This year, the projects were categorized into several focal themes: climate and energy, energy technology and policy, oceans and the Arctic environment, water and health, biodiversity and land, urban sustainability, and culture and the environment.

Smoke billows from a tangled pile of burning wires as a young man pokes and turns the bundle to melt away the plastic outer coating and get at the copper interior. The ground quivers and shakes as he walks over layers of burnt wire, ash, and waste.

In January 2016, Zhou, Byrne, Aboagye and eight other Princeton undergraduate students traveled from New Jersey mid-blizzard to Ghana, Africa to spend one week working with the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP) to develop a series of informative videos to help AMP promote worker health and safety at the Agbogbloshie scrapyard. At Agbogbloshie an estimated 6,000-10,000 people work in the scrap trade dismantling and/or processing a wide array of items – such as batteries, household appliances, televisions, computers, mobile phones, vehicles, aircraft and telecommunications equipment – to forward on to steelworks, copper refineries and specialized recycling industries.

Read the full story on the Pace Center website. Also see thisQ&A about the video project with DK Osseo-Asare

During their sophomore year, Princeton University students Kasturi Shah and Vaasvi Goyal decided to list all of the problems they wanted to fix in India, their home country. Once they realized that they shared a passion for education, they brainstormed ideas for how to expand access to education to children in India who may not have resources or support in school. Hello, Seekho was born.

Hello, Seekho provides free audio education through a toll-free number in India. By using a basic mobile phone, users can dial the number to connect to over 60 lessons teaching the English language at various levels of difficulty. "Seekho" means "to learn" in Hindi.

"When we decided to tackle education in India, we decided to focus on access and quality," said Shah, of Mumbai. "We thought of all the existing platforms for free, quality education like Coursera and then the wide-reaching impact of mobile phones in India."

Now seniors, Shah, a physics major pursuing certificates in Latin American studies and visual arts, and Goyal, an economics major from Delhi, have been wrestling with the question of whether to continue growing their social venture after Commencement or to pursue careers in fields related to their majors.

Frist Campus Center was the center of Princeton University's research universe Thursday afternoon as more than 150 undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers presented their work at the first Princeton Research Day.

The event highlighted research from the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities and the arts in formats including talks, poster presentations, performances, art exhibitions and digital presentations — all designed with the general public in mind.

"It's a wonderful cross-section of the research enterprise at Princeton," said Pablo Debenedetti, dean for research, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical and biological engineering.

Every year citizens flee their homelands to escape political instability, violent conflicts, environmental degradation and grinding poverty. In 2015 alone, roughly 1 million migrants sought a more secure future within the European Union. Over the past few months, students in a Princeton University undergraduate policy task force have been studying the challenges EU leaders face in dealing with the migrant influx — and developing potential solutions.

The task force represents the most distinctive feature of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs' undergraduate program and is different from a course, seminar or independent work in other departments. Task force work is often modeled on the way research is done by government staff. The group as a whole is charged with tacking a policy issue, and each student writes a research paper on one aspect of the larger problem. These individual papers satisfy the University's junior independent work requirement.

The first annual Princeton Research Day, a campus-wide celebration of student research, will be held on Thursday and features over 160 presenters who have been selected to give talks and show their independent creative and artistic works.

This event differs from other type of undergraduate or graduate research poster session because the event aims to give students the opportunity to explain their research in everyday language, rather than in specialist, technical terms. Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines will be presenting at the event, from Chemical and Biological Engineering, to Anthropology and Sociology.

Princeton University senior and physics major Joseph Scherrer is one of 12 college seniors and first-year graduate students nationwide to be named 2016 Hertz Fellows by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. The fellows, who were selected from more than 800 applicants, will receive a stipend and full tuition support valued at $250,000 for up to five years of graduate study in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences.

Scherrer, from Nashville, Tennessee, will begin pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 after spending a year in Germany as a Fulbright Fellow. Scherrer plans to pursue a research career in biophysics and explore biological systems by harnessing his academic backgrounds in physics and engineering, and his penchant for developing technological instruments.

Princeton University juniors Briana Payton and Daniel Teehan have been awarded 2016 Truman Scholarships, which provide up to $30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in professional development programs to prepare for careers in public service.

The award, which was given this year to 54 students among 775 candidates nationwide, "recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service," according to the Truman Scholarship Foundation.

As Princeton University senior Lisa Gong completed her internship at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in the summer of 2015, she said goodbye to a patient she had come to know named Betsy.

Betsy asked if she would see Gong again. Hopefully, Gong replied.

Thanks to the Martin Dale Fellowship, Gong may have the opportunity to reconnect with Betsy as the ecology and evolutionary biology major travels the country for a year working in programs that provide health care to the homeless and capturing the lives of patients through documentary photography and video.

"The main goal of my project is to dispel unfair judgments against those experiencing homelessness and to elevate an awareness of the common ground we all share as humans existing together," Gong said. "I think everybody deserves the opportunity to be understood on his or her own terms. It's an overly idealistic sentiment, sure, but I hope that this project can at least somewhat help to project the voice of a population that typically goes unheard."

The fellowship, created by 1953 Princeton alumnus Martin Dale, provides a $33,000 grant for a senior to spend the year after graduation on "an independent project of extraordinary merit that will widen the recipient's experience of the world and significantly enhance the recipient's growth and intellectual development."

She is one of 20 students from around the country to be awarded 2016 Beinecke Scholarships, which provide each winner with $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. The awards were established in 1971 and are administered by the Sperry Fund.

When Josh Umansky-Castro joined Engineers Without Borders as a freshman, he traveled to the remote mountain town of La Pitajaya, Peru, to help build and maintain two water distribution systems serving 21 families.

The pipe systems that carry water downhill from a distant spring were designed by Princetonians who came before him, and who left a lasting impact on the community they came to serve.

As one of two project managers for a new distribution system in Pusunchás, Peru, his team is building a system that will serve 120 families and provide over 6,300 gallons (24,000 liters) of running water per day. Each household is expected to have its own tap, a goal that local residents have strived for in the last 20 years.

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The Office of the Dean for Research (DFR) has opportunities for a select group of undergraduate students to write science news and profile articles about Princeton University faculty and students for the Research at Princeton (http://www.princeton.edu/research/) page and research news blog, Princeton Journal Watch (http://blogs.princeton.edu/research). These articles are aimed at a non-technical audience and conform to the news and profile styles used by major science magazines and web sites.

Responsibilities: DFR Student Writers will be required to familiarize themselves with the topic, interview faculty members and graduate students, write articles, rewrite in response to edits, and adhere to deadlines.

Qualifications: Successful applicants will have a strong interest in communicating about science and research to the general public, will demonstrate strong writing skills, and ideally will have familiarity with writing in the style used by web sites and magazines for science news.

Logistics: DFR Student writers may write on their own time from any location but must be available to check in with the editor during normal business hours at the DFR offices at 91 Prospect Ave. A desk is available for student use. The hours per article will vary, and the number of articles written will be decided by the student and supervisor.

Applicants should submit:
· Resume
· Cover letter explaining your interest in writing about science for the general public
· One to three writing samples, with at least one being a news article of approximately 500 to 700 words.

The students met with Peter Clement, who worked with the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence and served as briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as a panel of senior intelligence analysts working on issues related to arms control, terrorism, public and military relations, among others.

Princeton University senior Emily de La Bruyère has been awarded the 2016 Michel David-Weill Scholarship to pursue a master's degree in international security at Sciences Po in Paris.

The scholarship is awarded each year to one American student from applicants at 30 top U.S. universities based on literacy and scholastic achievements, capacity for critical analysis, demonstrated history of leadership, and proven commitment to the community.

The Office of Sustainability is proud to present its new Campus as Lab logo! The logo symbolizes the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability challenges and the opportunity to address them through bridging operational and academic aspects of the university, with an ethic of service. These symbols are embedded within an iconic feature of the University, Nassau Hall, representing how sustainability problem solving here on Princeton’s campus can help us further achieve our goal of continuing to serve our nation and the world. The Office of Sustainability gratefully acknowledges Olivia Grah '19 for developing and designing the logo.

Princeton is a living laboratory filled with opportunities to study sustainability issues right here on campus through any discipline. By serving as a demonstration of sustainable systems, the University strives to ensure that all students can meaningfully employ the principles of sustainability in any future endeavor.

Ye, a senior computer science major at Princeton University, is an advocate of formal methods, the process of using mathematical techniques to specify how software should function and to verify that it meets the specifications. In the computer science community, the use of formal methods in programming has been debated since the 1960s. They have not been widely adopted by software companies due to the perception that they require extensive training, add lengthy stages to practical software development, and are incompatible with certain software packages.

Yet the techniques, Ye says, can expose programming errors in software critical for banking, medicine, communications and voting, and could block hackers and thieves.

Princeton's Global Health Program (GHP) serves as a hub for students interested in tackling some of the most pressing health-related issues of our time.

Students can earn a certificate in global health and health policy and also pursue a wide range of opportunities, such as participating in a summer internship in the United States or abroad, taking health-related courses, finding support for health-related thesis research, and getting involved with on-campus activities related to global health. Students often decide to pursue a career in global health.

"Princeton students are part of a new global health generation — a generation that witnesses firsthand the severe health inequalities in the world and wants to do something about it," said João Biehl and Andrea Graham, co-directors of GHP, who introduce the program in the publication "Global Health at Princeton," which highlights GHP's offerings. "The Global Health Program equips students with the cutting-edge tools, real-life experiences and critical perspective to make meaningful change in a time plagued by both emerging and enduring health-related challenges."

Princeton seniors James Agolia and Andrew Nelson have been named co-winners of the University's 2016 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

They will be recognized at a luncheon during Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 20.

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership. Previous recipients include the late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. Goheen, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Princeton students always anticipate the next thing, and this semester promises to be no different. But I hope as you proceed through your courses, your independent work, and your other activities this spring, you’ll take just a moment to savor what you’re doing now. Alumni surveys ten years after graduation tend to suggest that alums remember their thesis experience fondly. Your thesis might not seem such a happy experience right now if you’re a senior working on a deadline but at some point, all that work will be tinged with nostalgia and the pride of completion.

But despite the stress of the moment, you can still try to savor the experience of research and writing, of collaboration in labs and studios, of chasing down creative ideas that might bear fruit. Once this exercise is complete, when will you next have the time or the excellent mentorship with which to pursue such an ambitious independent project?

For those of you who are not yet seniors, I urge you toward a similar sense of present-ness, even as you make decisions about your future. What moves you now in your studies? Which courses excite your passions and ideas? Which of your studies and co-curricular activities moves you and why? Pay attention to the signals you get from your work (and from your play) and use them as information as you make your choices about concentrations and other ways to become involved on campus.

The Harvard Student Research Conference is the largest student run conference on education in the entire country. This year, it will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Friday, March 25th, 2016. All kinds of education research are accepted for the conference - qualitative and quantitative, work done through internships and class projects, completed and ongoing research.

The deadline to submit original research to the Harvard Student Research Conference has been extended. The new deadline for submission is Friday, February 12th, 2016. You can submit a proposal using our website: http://scholar.harvard.edu/src2016/proposal

Princeton undergraduates in the course "The Arts of Urban Transition" have spent the past semester using texts and methods from history, theater and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York City and Detroit.

"We're examining what it meant for industry to leave, what it meant for the economy, the built environment, the populations," said Aaron Shkuda, one of the course's instructors and the project manager of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities. "We're considering why New York and Detroit have had such divergent histories since deindustrialization, how artists have shaped the process of development, and how they have responded to some of the contradictions of the postindustrial city."

Among the topics explored in the class: gentrification, relationships among artists, changing urban economies and the impact of urban arts initiatives.

The Stanford Undergraduate Research Association (SURA) is proud to announce that the application period for the Stanford Research Conference (SRC) has opened. This year’s conference is on April 15-17 in Stanford,CA and will be a national event, open to undergraduate applicants from across the country. Students from all major academic disciplines will have the opportunity to present their work and spend a weekend engaging with researchers from other colleges and universities. Applications are now open for submission and will be due on February 18, 2016 at 12:00 PM PST. Please visit our conference website, sura.stanford.edu/conference to learn more about the conference and find the link to the application. We invite you to learn more about SURA and what our vision is for the first national Stanford Research Conference in this letter from the SURA Co-Presidents. This moment has been months in the making and we are extremely excited to share it with you!​

Princeton seniors Ella Cheng and Tyler Rudolph and alumni Lucas Briger, Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic and Yung Yung (Rosy) Yang have been named inaugural Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For its first class, 111 scholars were selected from around the world. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. The courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua as well as visiting scholars and will start in August. Cultural immersion and travel also are key elements of the scholarship. Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman founded the program and the scholars will be housed on the newly constructed Schwarzman College on the Tsinghua campus.

The full article on Princeton's Schwarzman Scholars is available on the University website.

Six million child and 500,000 maternal deaths occur each year worldwide, often from easily-preventable causes. Why do women and children – especially those in developing countries – continue to die at such alarming rates?

This was the question posed to members of last fall’s undergraduate Policy Task Force, “Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries,” offered by Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Every Task Force at the Wilson School challenges participants to address a specific public policy issue through both independent research and collaboration on joint recommendations the class presents to public officials, area specialists, or others in the public and private sector.

The full article is available on the website of the Woodrow Wilson School.

The application period for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) International at RWTH Aachen University has begun. The 10-week program takes place from May 23rd through July 29th, 2016. The program encompasses a two-week German language course and an eight-week research project at one of our university’s departments or affiliated research institutes. On top of that, students will participate in intercultural workshops, and leisure activities such as field trips will be offered, too.

There is no tuition fee associated with UROP International. Students will be required to pay a semester fee of ~230€ (~255 USD, ~350 CAD) for the public transportation ticket which is valid in the whole province (North Rhine-Westphalia). UROP International participants are offered a room in one of our student residences. Scholarships of 1,850€ (~2,040 USD, ~2,800 CAD) each are available to 30 students. The scholarships will be awarded based on academic performance and recommendation; students from our partner universities will be given priority.

As usual, students can apply to up to two projects using the “ONLINE-Form” registration through the database. The application deadline is January 31st, 2016. Generally, all undergraduate students from your university are eligible to participate in UROP International, provided that

they are US/Canadian citizens or permanent residents.

they are enrolled in an undergraduate degree program when applying.

Prior knowledge of the German language is not required; several levels of language classes will be offered.

In order to apply, students will first need to register to a project of their interest using our database. Subsequently, the following application documents need to be submitted via email to urop@rwth-aachen.de:

Letter of Motivation (two separate letters specific to the respective project are required when applying for two projects)

Letter of Recommendation (may be sent via email or mail directly by the supervisor)

Transcript of Records

Please note that we only accept complete applications. Ideally, students submit their application as one single pdf file and include their name and the project number in the file name.

Currently available research projects can be viewed using our database. The deadline for RWTH Aachen supervisors to post new research projects in our database passed last week; it is now up-to-date and can be accessed using the following link:

For students who are keen on participating in UROP International 2016 but do not find a project in our database that meets their interest, we are happy to try to organize a placement with a research group directly. However, in order to do so before the application deadline passes, we need to know as soon as possible which research institute or group the student is interested in.

Ogemdi Ude, an English major, will spend a year as a Sachs Global Scholar studying Indigenous Australian physical theater in Melbourne, Australia.

The Sachs Scholarship is intended to enlarge each recipient's experience of the world by providing the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation. There are two types of awards. Recipients of the Sachs Scholarship study at Worcester College to pursue a specific Oxford degree program. Those awarded the Sachs Global Scholarship receive support for an independent project at an established institution abroad to "engage in a transformative intellectual experience."

Barton, who is completing a bachelor's degree in astrophysical sciences, plans to pursue a master of science degree in mathematical modeling and scientific computing and an M.Sc. in applied statistics at Oxford.

The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) will provide hands-on laboratory experience to undergraduate students through the Amgen Scholars Program 2016. [This Program is made possible by Amgen Foundation as in 2015.]

The objective of the program is to provide undergraduate students from different countries (including some from Japan) who are committed to or who are considering a career in biology or related sciences and planning to continue to graduate studies, with eight weeks (from June 14 to August 10, 2016) of biomedical research experience in the basic and translational sciences. Opportunities for research experience will be provided by 32 research laboratories in 5 of the graduate schools and research institutes of UTokyo (Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Institute of Industrial Science) where the students will be able to gain valuable hands-on experience in research.

Additionally, there will be opportunities for the students to take part in tours and guidance about the University, and other events organized to maximize their experience as Amgen Scholars at UTokyo. Each Amgen Scholar will receive a stipend to cover their return travel and living expenses, including accommodation, during the program.

UTokyo Amgen Scholars Program applicants must:

- Be undergraduate students enrolled in colleges or universities worldwide (including Japan) that award a bachelor¹s degree (or its equivalent)

- Be undergraduate students enrolled in four-year colleges or universities who are sophomores in their second year (with four quarters or three semesters of college experience), juniors in their third year, or non-graduating seniors in their fourth year (who are returning in the fall to complete their first undergraduate/bachelor¹s degree or its equivalent)*

- Have a strong record of academic performance

- Have a high level of English proficiency: as demonstrated by a minimum TOEFL (iBT) score of 79, IELTS overall band score of 6.0, if not a native English Speaker or if English is not your first language

- Have an interest in pursuing a Ph.D.

* Please note that undergraduate students enrolled in colleges or universities with a three-year bachelor degree program must have completed at least two semesters of their studies prior to participating in the Program.

The application for the program is now open online and will close at 3:00 PM on February 1, 2016 (Japan Standard Time).

Applications are now being accepted for presenters at the inaugural Princeton Research Day, a campuswide celebration of the research and creative endeavors of the University's juniors, seniors, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.

The May 5, 2016, event offers an opportunity for student and early-career researchers and artists to share their work with the community and will include contributions from the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and humanities. The program will feature talks, posters, performances, art exhibitions, demonstrations, digital presentations and an awards ceremony for outstanding contributions. The event, to be held in Frist Campus Center, will be free and open to the public.

Princeton University senior Azza Cohen has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study culture and colonialism at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway. The Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to 12 students nationwide by the nonprofit U.S.-Ireland Alliance based in Washington, D.C.

Princeton seniors Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin, Duncan Hosie and Ryan Low have been named 2016 Marshall Scholars. The Marshall Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living at a British university of the recipient's choice for up to two years. Up to 40 scholars from American colleges are named annually.

A group of Woodrow Wilson School students took part in a crisis simulation in which “senior officials” across the Asia-Pacific region confronted two significant challenges: a clash between China and the Philippines brewing in the South China Sea and the prospect of serious instability on the Korean peninsula.

The simulation, organized by Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies (CISS), was oriented around the interactions between the United States, China, the Philippines, Japan and the Republic of Korea.

More than 80 participants – including Princeton undergraduate and graduate students, West Point cadets, Naval Academy midshipmen and students from Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology – played the roles of political and military officials from those five countries.

During the Oct. 18 event, participants had to negotiate diplomatic agreements, present public statements and work together to achieve varying political, military and diplomatic objectives. The simulation gave life to the myriad obstacles involved with crafting effective strategies in the real world. Adding to the realism, each student team was advised by a Princeton student or a visiting guest with real-world policy or military experience.

Princeton University alumna Katherine Clifton, a member of the Class of 2015, and seniors Richard Lu, Cameron Platt and Evan Soltas have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

They are among the 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford.

Clifton, of Honolulu, concentrated in English and completed a certificate in theater at Princeton. A recipient of the Martin A. Dale Fellowship, Clifton is spending this academic year in Belgrade, Serbia, writing and staging an original documentary play exploring hostilities between Serb and Roma people. At Oxford, she plans to pursue a Master of Science degree in Russian and Eastern European studies and an M.Sc. in forced migration and refugee studies.

"I feel so grateful for this honor and excited to engage fully the unique opportunities it involves beneath the 'dreaming spires,'" Clifton said. "I'll be spending Thanksgiving with my family at home this year for the first time in six years, and I feel immensely lucky to have so many reasons to be thankful."

The atlas focuses on three aspects of the University: history, sustainability, and people. Princeton’s geographical growth as a campus is its spatial history; Princeton’s development as a sustainable campus is a spatial component of its environment; and Princeton’s graduates and alumni moving around the world is a spatial description of its people.

Princeton undergraduate researchers are invited to attend HCURA’s National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University on January 21-23, 2016. NCRC is currently the United States’s largest student-run national research conference. Over the past few years, it has grown to include an audience of 200 top undergraduate researchers from the United States and a growing number of international universities presenting in a broad range of disciplines.

NCRC is an opportunity for undergraduate researchers to share their work at poster sessions and to deliver plenary speaker presentations while hearing from inspiring leaders in various fields of research. This year, we will be featuring notable keynote speakers including Rosina Bierbaum, member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST) and former Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor at The Rockefeller University and discoverer of the hormone Leptin; Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University; and Alexander Kamb, Senior Vice President of Research at Amgen. Topics of research in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields are all encouraged.

The application deadline for general applications is November 1st, 2015 (11:59 PM EST). You can find the application as well as information about travel scholarships, housing, and registration on our website http://campus.hcura.org/ncrc/

Jill Dolan has inaugurated a new blog, Dean Dolan’s Downloads, where she will share occasional thoughts on matters of interest to the campus community. The blog is open to comments, especially to students who wish to share their feedback.

ReMatch (link is external) is a research-mentoring program designed to connect undergraduate students and graduate students, two historically unconnected populations at Princeton, through their shared interest in academic research. ReMatch offers fellowship funding for mentorship connections and joint research projects. Two recent ReMatch Meet and Greet events were well-attended, with over 200 freshmen and sophomores participating, along with 45 graduate students. The graduate student mentors (link is external) come from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, representing research opportunities of interest to a wide spectrum of undergraduates.

In November, two Meals for Mentoring dinners will be held, where undergrads will be given another opportunity to meet potential mentors and explore their research interest further. In December and January, the program will offer additional opportunities for students to find a grad mentor through small group meetups, lab tours, and research shadowing experiences. Mentor-mentee pairs will be invited to co-write a proposal to receive funding for a summer research internship in early February.

As students mounted their posters and prepared their short films – the physical manifestations of a summer well-spent – the Woodrow Wilson School’s Robertson Hall lobby and Bernstein Gallery quickly became the stage for Princeton’s latest student research symposium.

“The CHW programs make it possible for any student to have a transformative experience in many places around the world,” said Kristina Graff, director of global health programs at CHW. “This experience shapes their understanding of global health.”

Ten years ago, the founding director of Princeton University's new center for engineering education set a simple goal: "To inject more engineering into the liberal arts and inject more of the liberal arts into engineering."

"We saw technology affecting nearly every aspect of public and private life and knew we needed to broaden engineering education far beyond its traditional borders," said H. Vincent Poor, now dean of the School of Engineering Applied Science. "Our vision was to teach technology more broadly in a societal context and also to engage with the community outside the University."

This purpose was reflected in the center's inaugural programs: the integrated Engineering, Mathematics and Physics course for incoming engineers, a set of cross-disciplinary courses including an entrepreneurship class, and the first annual Innovation Forum. Over the past 10 years, the Keller Center has continued these initiatives and expanded much further.

Blanca Ramirez might be one of the busiest students you’ll find on the Cal State Fullerton campus. But still, she isn’t feeling overwhelmed.

“My grandfather is one of my biggest inspirations. He farmed by hand, without any tools until he was 92,” she said. “So, if he could work that hard all the time, I think I should be able to do so as well.”

Now 21 years old, Ramirez is on the cusp of a bright future. She’s a senior majoring in sociology and minoring in psychology. She’s a McNair Scholar. She’s done extensive sociological research at CSUF and Princeton University.

Deborah Sandoval '16 spent the summer in 2015 at Yellowstone National Park and Montana State University as the Office of Sustainability's first Yellowstone Sustainability Software Development/Technical Intern. The Internship was funded by the High Meadows Foundation Fund. Learn more about her experiences through this Q&A:

Describe your role as the Yellowstone Sustainability Software Development/Technical Intern?

My role as an intern was to design and implement an energy dashboard for an off-grid facility in Yellowstone National Park: the Lamar Buffalo Ranch. The dashboard allows users to view information about energy consumption on the ranch and how it relates to factors such as temperature, time of day, and time of year, etc. Additionally, the dashboard would give energy information about the solar arrays located on-site. I worked with staff from Yellowstone and Montana State University to complete the project.

What was a typical day like for you?

I lived on MSU’s campus and walked to work every day at the HVAC lab in the engineering building. The lab was made up of mechanical and industrial graduate students. I was able to work in Yellowstone periodically, where I helped with hardware maintenance and worked on installing my software on-site.

The Princeton Entrepreneurship Council (PEC) was established in July 2015 by President Eisgruber and Provost Lee, as the advisory and coordination body on entrepreneurship programs at Princeton University. PEC works closely with existing campus organizations to enable Entrepreneurship the Princeton Way.

Princeton University celebrated the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 13.

"We're delighted by this year's prize winners, all of whom demonstrate the best of Princeton's students," Dean of the College Jill Dolan said. "They not only sustain high grade point averages, but their interests extend well beyond their declared academic paths, into international study, service work, arts practices, and a variety of engagements in campus recreation and community. We're very proud of their work and of their University citizenship."

Freshman First Honor Prize

This year's Freshman First Honor Prize is shared by Kyle Berlin and Kevin Sun. The prize is awarded each year to a sophomore in recognition of exceptional achievement during freshman year.

The Independent College Fund of New Jersey is seeking student applications to participate in the ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium in March of 2016. Student participants will have new learning opportunities, develop presentation & communications skills, build peer networks, and engage with industry professionals.

Application Process and Awards

ICFNJ will provide up to 28 awards (a maximum of $1,000 per project) according to the Participant Guidelines. Participation in the Undergraduate Research Symposium is based on a competitive application process offered only to New Jersey independent college students as outlined in the eligibility criteria.

During August, seven Princeton students and alumni experienced what it's like to be a part of one of the largest international theater festivals in the world — by serving as interns for the musical improvisation troupe Baby Wants Candy (BWC) at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

The ensemble has a Princeton connection. In 2014, BWC's director Al Samuels and company members taught a Princeton Atelier on musical theater improvisation at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The Princeton Atelier, founded in 1994 by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, brings professional artists to the University for intensive collaborative work with students. Since BWC's Princeton course, the Lewis Center has promoted the company's Fringe Festival internship to its students. This summer, the Princetonians were among 30 interns from the United Kingdom and the United States. Below, four of them share highlights, surprises and lessons learned backstage, onstage and throughout the streets of Edinburgh.

With its latest addition — a new, fully revamped online portal connecting all things global health — Princeton is showing just how much it aims to be, as Horton says, "a leading voice in global health affairs."

The Global Health Program website, developed by Kristina Graff, director of global health programs and associate director at Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), gathers together information about students, faculty, Princeton partnerships abroad and global health-related events featured at the University.

"This website is a pathway for finding your global health community at Princeton," said Graff, who also is a Princeton alumna. "It provides snapshots of what faculty and students are doing across campus, and it offers a myriad of ways to take advantage of the program’s offerings."

As the youngest member of the Winter 2015 cruise team, it is with both excitement and trepidation that I set sail onboard the S.A. Agulhas II. I am entering my fourth year as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where I have been studying in the Department of Geosciences with a focus on physical oceanography and climate. With recent Princeton graduate Preston Kemeny, I will be helping out with several projects onboard, including seawater sampling for nitrogen isotope analysis (a collaboration between Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, and Princeton) and trace metal analysis (which involves CSIR and SU). It is my hope that samples collected this winter will form the basis for my senior thesis next year. I want to acknowledge the support of the Princeton Environmental Institute, whose generous funding has enabled my participation in the cruise.

The undergraduates in this year’s Junior Summer Institute (JSI) class hailed from 24 U.S. colleges and universities, representing 16 states and 14 majors. The seven-week program prepares students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs.

Students are admitted to JSI based on a demonstrated commitment to public service and multicultural social issues.

“This year’s JSI students are exceptionally motivated to bring about change and serve others in the domestic and international arenas,” said Director of Graduate Student Life Gilbert Collins, MPA ’99. “In light of the challenges facing our country and our world, their contributions are needed now more than ever.”

In addition to his work for the Wilson School’s graduate program, Collins manages the School’s JSI program, which he participated in himself as an undergraduate at Harvard University.

This summer, Princeton undergraduate students are gaining new perspectives and opportunities through internships in a variety of fields in more than 50 countries through the University's International Internship Program (IIP).

IIP allows freshmen, sophomores and juniors to live and work abroad during the University's summer break. The program was established in 2000 with just seven student interns. Now, more than 200 participate.

"IIP's placements aim to provide undergraduates the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in a professional setting abroad that will allow them to explore possible career paths and to develop and expand their academic interests," said International Internship Program Director Luisa Duarte-Silva.

With a trip to Spain as a high point, Princeton University undergraduates participated in a semester-long study of Spanish bridge design in the class "A Social and Multi-dimensional Exploration of Structures."

Instructors for the course, offered last fall, were Maria Garlock, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza, who was the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Keller Center during the last academic year.

Focusing on eight bridges and working in groups, the students learned about design and structure as well as economical, political, cultural, environmental and geographical context. They presented their work to the class during site visits to the bridges over fall break.

Being in Athens during Greece's financial meltdown has been an interesting experience. There has been a noticeable change in the city during this uncertain time for the country, and I wanted to provide a glimpse of what life has been like in Athens these past few weeks.

One of the first Greek words I learned was "endaxi" because, well, I hear it here more than I hear people saying "hello" or anything else. "Endaxi"—or just "daxi"—means essentially, "It's all okay, nothing to worry about." In Greece, any dispute or misunderstanding at a restaurant or store can generally be resolved with "daxi"—let's just not worry about it now. It's all fine.

Students of all ages and teachers from New Jersey and beyond will be engaged in a summer of learning on the Princeton campus, taking part in outreach programs on subjects ranging from leadership and entrepreneurship to computer science, music and journalism.

Princeton students, faculty and staff will lead various programs designed to help elementary, secondary and college students build their academic skills and to provide cutting-edge lessons that teachers can take back to their own classrooms. The programs are part of a busy summer on campus. Princeton's Department of Athletics sponsors dozens of sports camps; the University runs a summer day camp; and the Office of Conference and Event Services works with numerous outside organizations that use campus facilities for educational programs and other activities.

The following list offers a look at some of the University's educational outreach programs taking place this summer. Deadlines for registering for this year's programs have passed, but anyone interested in participating in future programs should consult the links and contacts listed below; some programs are restricted to participants from particular schools, organizations or geographic areas. Reporters interested in covering any programs should contact Director of Media Relations and University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua in the Office of Communications at mmbugua@princeton.edu or 609-258-5733.

From studying the culture of war to creating a theater piece featuring aerial choreography, Eamon Foley's senior year at Princeton allowed him to experiment with and execute many of the ideas that had interested him for years.

Foley earned an anthropology degree and a certificate in theater in spring 2015. Princeton students must write a senior thesis or conduct an independent research project for their major and certificates, and the creation of the thesis is considered a defining achievement in students' academic lives. For his theater thesis, Foley blended his academic studies with his professional experience as a performer to create an original theater-dance piece titled "Hero." The work was performed April 25-May 1 at the Lewis Center for the Arts' Matthews Acting Studio, the Program in Theater's black box theater.

"In my time with the anthropology department, I spent a lot of time studying ethnography — the idea of gathering information through interview — and it kind of reminded me of 'The Laramie Project' [about the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard] and all this great theater that's been created from ethnography," Foley said. "I thought this would be a great way to look at where anthropology and theater meet."

I attended the Practical Applications of NMR in Industry Conference in La Jolla, CA, which ran from February 9 through 12. My advisor, István Pelczer, told me about the conference and said that it would be a great opportunity to present my senior thesis research to a scientific audience that specialized in my field.

At the conference, I presented a poster on nitrogen-14 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Nuclei, like electrons, have spin and the premise of this type of spectroscopy is to measure how much energy it takes to flip a spin against a magnetic field. By measuring the energies of these transitions, a great deal of information can be obtained about what the nitrogen atom is bonded to, what functional group it is in, the concentration of the molecule it is in, as well as many other pieces of information that can be extremely useful in both academia and industrial applications. These applications include the detection and quantification of relevant molecules in biological systems like cancer cells and the resolution of complex mixtures.

Even in the sun-drenched islands of the Philippines, access to light can be scarce. Over 20 million people in the country lack access to electricity, including 1.5 million students at 8,000 unelectrified schools. In the dark, these children rely on the dim light of kerosene flames to read and complete homework assignments once the sun goes down; a study strategy that is dangerous both for their health and their homes. Exposure to the fumes from kerosene lamps can lead to detrimental health effects, and homes are regularly set ablaze by lanterns that have been knocked over.

Over the summer of 2014, I worked with Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines, an organization that seeks to fight poverty in the Philippines by providing all off-grid villages with sustainable access to solar energy. Stiftung also works with We Share Solar to provide solar suitcases to populations that lack power. Specifically, I worked on Stiftung’s Light for Education Program, which focuses on providing solar energy to rural schools. I was able to find this opportunity through Princeton’s International Internship Program and received funding through the Office of International Programs as well as the Class of 1995 Summer Service Fund.

I was lucky enough to be offered an undergraduate placement in Professor Groves’s lab. After I studied abroad my Junior spring, Professor Groves welcomed me into the lab over the summer and for the coming year. I am happy to have called his lab home for my thesis work.

When and where was your research experience?

Through the summer of 2014 and throughout the 2014-15 school year I worked in the laboratory of Professor Groves at Princeton. Finding a thesis laboratory is a necessary part of the chemistry department at Princeton, but I am thankful for the opportunity to work with such talented researchers.

The Lewis Center for the Arts announces the award of over $100,000 to support the summer projects and research of 43 Princeton students, including substantial individual awards through the Alex Adam ’07 Award, the Mallach Senior Thesis Fund, the Mellor Fund for Undergraduate Research, and the Berl Senior Thesis Award. The awards were made through a competitive application process that received 95 proposals requesting over $410,000 in funding. For many recipients the funding provides the resources to conduct research, complete training and pursue other opportunities critical to achieving their senior thesis project goals.

Three juniors, Maya Wahrman, Bri White, and Cameron Johanning, have been selected for the Alex Adam ’07 Award. Established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam ’07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, the award provides $7,000 in support to each of three Princeton undergraduates who will spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of new artistic work. While a student at Princeton, Alex Adam pursued artistic interests in creative writing and theater. Joyce Carol Oates, his creative writing professor, praised his work as “sharp-edged, unexpectedly corrosive and very funny.” He was also an actor, and performed with the Princeton Shakespeare Company, Theatre Intime, and the Program in Theater.

Princeton student Denisa Buzatu's vision for an environmentally sustainable building is a sort of shape-shifting origami façade. For her senior thesis, Buzatu, a civil engineering major, is designing and prototyping a structure that shades the façade of a building by folding and adapting its shape in response to sunlight. "It's like electrical origami," said Buzatu. While the overall shape of the structure is immensely flexible, the individual surfaces are rigid and can be composed of any material, such as acrylic or solar panels.

Princeton student Denisa Buzatu's vision for an environmentally sustainable building is a sort of shape-shifting origami façade. For her senior thesis, Buzatu, a civil and environmental engineering major, is designing and prototyping a structure that shades the façade of a building by folding and adapting its shape in response to sunlight.

Her design takes advantage of a type of wire that contracts when current is applied to it and yet "remembers" and returns to its original shape. These wires make up the edges of eight triangular faces, which are combined to form a seamless surface, and can be activated individually or in combination by a microcontroller to fold the surface in myriad ways.

"It's like electrical origami," said Buzatu. While the overall shape of the structure is immensely flexible, the individual surfaces are rigid and can be composed of any material, such as acrylic or solar panels.

For example the surface could integrate solar panels as well as integrated sensors that monitor the amount of sunlight hitting the building. The modules could flatten automatically during sunny periods to simultaneously collect energy and shade the building, then use part of the collected energy to fold away when cloudy.

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The politics major's thesis focuses on rape kits, which contain physical evidence collected from sexual assault victims and can play an important role in identifying and convicting rapists. Sometimes, though, victims go through the invasive, hours-long procedure for the evidence to be collected only to see the kits remain untested for years.

Basaldua, who is from Edinburg, Texas, wanted to understand how often — and why — that happens.

When she found few answers in the limited academic research on the topic and scant data for her to analyze, she began to build her own sets of data. Basaldua looked first at a handful of states that require law enforcement agencies to report on untested rape kits, contacting government officials to provide data and answer questions. Eventually Colorado emerged as the state where the most useful information was available.

Princeton student Rebecca Basaldua's senior thesis relies on academic knowledge, research skill and a generous helping of tenacity. The politics major's thesis focuses on rape kits, which contain physical evidence collected from sexual assault victims and can play an important role in identifying and convicting rapists. Sometimes, though, victims go through the invasive, hours-long procedure for the evidence to be collected only to see the kits remain untested for years. Basaldua, who is from Edinburg, Texas, wanted to understand how often — and why — that happens.

Since he was a child, Princeton University senior Dayton Martindale has loved science. So much so that after he receives his bachelor's degree in astrophysical sciences this year, he doesn't want to be a scientist.

He wants to be the person scientists need to help bring their research before the public. Martindale wants to help the average person understand the importance and influence of the work that occurs in the laboratories they'll never see, and that comes out of the fields they'll never study. He wants to be a science writer.

"What got me into science in the first place were Stephen Hawking books, and Neil deGrasse Tyson on television, and museum exhibits," said Martindale, who will begin the master's program in science and environmental journalism at the University of California-Berkeley in the fall. "I realized that if presenting science to the public is what I'm more excited about, why not do that?"

Dayton Martindale, a senior who receives his bachelor's degree in astrophysical sciences this year, doesn't want to be a scientist. He wants to be the person scientists need to help bring their research before the public. Martindale wants to help the average person understand the importance and influence of the work that occurs in the laboratories they'll never see, and that comes out of the fields they'll never study. He wants to be a science writer. "I realized that if presenting science to the public is what I'm more excited about, why not do that?"

Martindale will begin the master's program in science and environmental journalism at the University of California-Berkeley in the fall.

Nine Princeton undergraduates will intern and conduct research internationally this summer as the University's first Streicker Fellows.

The Streicker International Fellows Fund was established in 2015 to provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to carry out substantive research or educational projects while immersed in a foreign culture. The fellows have designed their own projects or internships in conjunction with host organizations outside the United States. During their summer abroad, they will delve more deeply into their areas of study, expand their perspectives and improve their ability to speak another language.

The program, administered by the University's Office of International Programs, is made possible through a gift from John Streicker, a member of Princeton's Class of 1964 and chairman of the board of the New York City-based Sentinel Real Estate Corp., and his children: Margaret Streicker Porres, a member of the Class of 1997 and president of Newcastle Realty Services in New York; Michael Streicker, a member of the Class of 1999 and managing director of Sentinel Real Estate; and Elizabeth Streicker Albertini, a member of the Class of 2002 and a psychiatrist in New York.

In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing, and millions homeless. Three years later, the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake hit Japan, causing a tsunami that covered more than 200 square miles, killing more than 18,000 people and causing a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant.

Princeton senior Jake Robertson has been awarded a St. Andrew's Society Scholarship for postgraduate study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He will pursue a master's in classical and contemporary text (acting).

The scholarship, given by the St. Andrew's Society of the State of New York, provides $30,000 each for two Scottish graduate students to study in the United States and two American students of Scottish heritage to study in Scotland. The scholarship stipulates that American applicants have some Scottish background and intend to attend a Scottish university.

In his application, Robertson, who is from Lombard, Illinois, wrote: "My grandfather and I, both fascinated by our Scottish lineage, spent hours together researching our family history, and Scotland has become an indelible part of my identity. The program at RCS is as an opportunity to combine this ancestral connection with the pursuit of my theatrical ambitions."

Princeton University junior Thomas Gonzalez Roberts has been awarded a 2015 Truman Scholarship, which provides up to $30,000 for graduate study.

The award, which was given to 58 students among 688 candidates nationwide, "recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service," according to the Truman Scholarship Foundation.

Roberts, who is from Morris, Minnesota, is majoring in astrophysical sciences and plans to pursue a master's degree in public policy focused on international and global affairs. He hopes to work in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) National Security and International Affairs division. Roberts is interested in establishing standards for international agreements and peace related to space exploration. Roberts, who studies Russian at Princeton, envisions international research collaboration as a key to peaceful policies among the world's "space powers," particularly the United States, Russia, China and the European Union.

Princeton junior Yuval Wigderson has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Wigderson, whose hometown is Princeton, is a mathematics major. He plans to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics and pursue an academic career.

One- and two-year Goldwater Scholarships cover tuition, fees, room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year. Wigderson will receive the scholarship for his senior year and is among 260 scholarship winners selected from a field of 1,206 students nationwide.

She is one of 20 students from around the country to be awarded 2015 Beinecke Scholarships, which provide each winner with $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. The awards were established in 1971 and are administered by the Sperry Fund.

In her application for the scholarship, Narayanan wrote that her interest in anthropology was sparked in part by her experience as the daughter of Indian immigrants and a childhood "divided between a conventionally American school system and the vibrant community of the South Indian diaspora, complete with weekly religion classes, Carnatic music lessons and concerts, and the occasional Diwali celebration rife with illicit sparklers."

Princeton University senior Katherine Clifton was first inspired to write a play about hostility between the Serbs and Romani people while participating in Princeton's Bridge Year Program. Five years later, she will do just that as the 2015 winner of the Martin Dale Fellowship.

Clifton, an English major earning a certificate in theater, plans to spend a year in Serbia staging an original play that explores the perspectives of both groups and creates dialogue between them. As part of the Bridge Year Program, Clifton lived in Serbia for nine months doing community service work before her freshman year.

"With the Dale Fellowship, I will close my Princeton chapter by returning to where it began," Clifton said. "I hope to instigate dialogue between the Serbs and Romani people (known as the Roma) using theater as a tool to embrace our shared humanity and to challenge our prejudices. The Dale will allow me to delve more deeply into the perennial question of what unites and what divides us."

The fellowship, created by 1953 Princeton alumnus Martin Dale, provides a $33,000 grant for a senior to spend the year after graduation on "an independent project of extraordinary merit that will widen the recipient's experience of the world and significantly enhance the recipient's growth and intellectual development."

This is the advice senior Abidjan Walker gives fellow Princeton students wondering about studying abroad. Not only has Walker pursued extensive international experience as an undergraduate, she is using these travels as a launching pad for her latest journey — writing her senior thesis.

Walker, a comparative literature major from Hanover, New Hampshire, has studied in China, Morocco and Switzerland. Building her linguistic and cultural toolkit sparked her senior thesis, which focuses on the language of instruction in educational systems in these countries. Walker also has had an internship in France.

Senior Abidjan Walker pursued extensive international experience as an undergraduate. A comparative literature major from Hanover, New Hampshire, Walker has studied in China, Morocco, Switzerland and France. Building her linguistic and cultural toolkit sparked her senior thesis, which focuses on the language of instruction in educational systems in these countries. The advice she gives fellow Princeton students wondering about studying abroad, "I say, 'Go, just go.'"